Humza Yousaf: if you reported me, you are "far right"

Humza Yousaf has claimed that anyone who believes his infamous 2020 Holyrood speech about racial injustice is a hate crime is part of the "far right." He made the astonishing claim during an interview on BBC News' HARDTalk, where he defended the controversial legislation.



Concerns have been raised that Scots' free speech will be curtailed by the law, introduced on April 1, as it adds new protected characteristics to a list of offences where people can "stir up hatred" by making comments which can be construed as "threatening and abusive."



The First Minister made a speech at the Scottish Parliament in 2020 following the death of George Floyd where he listed a number of prominent public sector jobs in Scotland filled by white people. A clip of this has been widely shared on social media, although it has often been taken out of context.

This resulted in dozens of hate crime reports being sent to Police Scotland from April 1, with claims that the First Minister was "stirring up hatred" against white people. These were not investigated by cops, who insisted they had already looked at this and it did not meet the criminal threshold.