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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 Defence League to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the wake of the Southport riots which injured 39 police officers.
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 Defence League. pic.twitter.com/9orWrKUiop
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) July 31, 2024
Yousaf argued: “It is time we took on the English Defence 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”. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has today said she is open to proscribing the group. Is that likely to stamp out racist violence?
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SubscribeFunny. What they say about the EDL is what I think about them