Former first minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf has been relatively quiet since leaving office, enjoying the new-found free time to focus on his fitness. He has today, however, waded into serious political matters once more.
In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Yousaf called for the English Defense League to be proscribed as a terrorist organization in the wake of the Southport riots which injured 39 police officers. Civil unrest erupted at a vigil for the girls who were stabbed to death on Monday at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Violence targeting police officers, the public, and mosques, all to drive forward the far-right’s hateful ideology.
Rhetoric is not enough.
We need to take action against the far-right. I have asked the Home Secretary to use her powers to proscribe the English Defense League. pic.twitter.com/9orWrKUiop
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) July 31, 2024
Yousaf said: ‘It is time we took on the English Defense League and the evil ideology that drives them.’ He said that EDL thugs had hijacked the murder of children for their own ‘nefarious purposes’ and were ‘chanting the most vile Islamophobia ever witnessed on the streets of the UK’.
‘Home Secretary, Britain has a far-Right problem. We need to acknowledge it, confront it and deal with it.’
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