Scotland’s First Minister has urged Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to be “on the right side of history” in delivering compensation for women impacted by changes to the State Pension age. Humza Yousaf has written to who he said are the “current and future” incumbents of Downing Street after he met with Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.
Humza Yousaf condemns sickening racist graffiti found near his Dundee home
02.04.2024 - 10:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Humza Yousaf has warned it is "increasingly difficult" to shield his children from racism after he was targeted with Islamophobic graffiti near his Dundee home.
Racist slurs relating to Humza Yousaf’s Pakistani heritage were sprayed on the walls and fences of homes in Hamilton Steet, Broughty Ferry, on Monday.
It is near where the First Minister lives with his wife and two children.
Yousaf, who became Scotland’s first Muslim and ethnic minority First Minister just over a year ago, described it as another reminder why a "zero-tolerance approach to hatred" was needed.
He said: "I do my best to shield my children from the racism and Islamophobia I face on a regular basis. That becomes increasingly difficult when racist grafitti (sic) targeting me appears near our family home.
"A reminder of why we must, collectively, take a zero-tolerance approach to hatred.”
It is understood the graffiti has since been removed, with Police Scotland also investigating the incident, which happened on the day the Scottish Government’s controversial, new, hate crime law came into force.
It is not the first time the SNP leader has responded to Islamophobia targeted at his family.
Yousaf, whose in-laws were trapped in Gaza for about a month before fleeing through Egypt, said in January that Muslim and Palestinian lives were viewed as “cheap” and “different”.
Last month, he also condemned “Islamophobic attacks” on his family as he denied claims a government donation to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) was a conflict of interest.
At the time, he said: “Due to my faith and race, there will always be those, particularly on the far-right, who will desperately try to prove my loyalties lie elsewhere.”
Following the graffiti, an SNP spokesperson
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