Nicola Sturgeon quits BBC event over Steve Bannon invitation

Nicola Sturgeon said inclusion of Steve Bannon risked ‘legitimising or normalising far-right, racist views’.Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of a conference being jointly hosted by the BBC next month after learning that Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon had been invited to take part.Scotland’s first minister said that allowing Bannon to freely express his opinions risked “legitimising or normalising far-right, racist views”.