Scottish minister demands Labour expel councillor over racist remark

Humza Yousaf describes anger over ‘brazen nature’ of comment made about him by Jim DempsterScotland’s transport minister, Humza Yousaf, has demanded that a councillor who made an Islamophobic comment about him be expelled from the Scottish Labour party.Jim Dempster, a Labour member of Dumfries and Galloway council, told transport officials at a meeting on Tuesday that “no one would have seen [Yousaf] under his burqa”. Continue reading...