Scottish Government minister Mairi McAllan reveals she is expecting her first baby

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Scotland’s economy secretary Mairi McAllan is expecting her first baby and has vowed to balance being a mum with her top government job.The 31-year-old was promoted into Humza Yousaf’s cabinet earlier this month after telling the First Minister she was pregnant.She told the Sunday Mail: “There was only so much longer I could hold in my stomach at work before letting people know.“We are nearly five months on so there is not long to go before the baby is with us.“I am intending to take leave from July, so the start of summer recess at parliament, and the baby is due at the end of July, and then I will be coming back around Easter time the following year.“I think it means a lot to women to see you can be in a leadership position in government and a 31-years-old mum at the same time and balance those two things.“It would be unrealistic to say I won’t need to grapple with that a bit, all women do, but it can be done and it should be normalised.”The Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy tied the knot with her childhood sweetheart Iain Renwick in August.They married at the Biggar Kirk in South Lanarkshire, close to where McAllan grew up and in the area she now represents as an MSP.The couple have been together since they were teenagers and Iain is a local farmer.Yousaf is understood not to have yet decided who will stand in to cover for McAllan while she is off work.She added: “The First Minister has been excellent about it, he and I had a discussion around a month ago, he wants to have as broad a spectrum of views in the cabinet as possible.“He said away you go, take your leave, come back, the job is yours.