Five suspended from Labour in candidate crackdown

Oh dear. It’s not just Reform UK that has had trouble with party candidates in recent weeks — the Labour party is facing issues of its own. Candidates for both the local and general elections have been found to have made and shared some rather inappropriate views — which are now coming back to bite them. Only yesterday, one prospective parliamentary candidate was dropped by Labour after being investigated over her social media activity while just last month a Labour councillor quit the party when her Twitter came under scrutiny. When will they learn? 

Find the list – so far – here:

Wilma Brown

The Scottish Labour candidate for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy was suspended from the party last month after being accused of liking racist and Islamophobic social media posts. Wilma Brown’s ‘liked’ tweets included one post that told a man wearing a turban that he would ‘NEVER be an Englishman’, another that referred to the former first minister as ‘Hamas Youseless’ and others that shared a prevalent conspiracy theory that says Yousaf gave terrorist organisation Hamas half a million pounds.