Half of Scots want Hate Crime Act repealed

Back to Scotland, where hapless Humza Yousaf is still managing to cause the SNP problems even after his resignation. It’s been over a month since Yousaf’s controversial Hate Crime Act came into force, and it still isn’t going down particularly well with the people of Scotland — to put things mildly. It now transpires that almost half of all Scots would rather it be repealed, according to a new Savanta poll for the Scotsman. Talk about a flop…

The rather revealing survey, which polled 1,080 Scots between May 3-8, found that 49 per cent of Scots thought the new law should be repealed. Only 36 per cent felt it should remain in place, while 15 per cent didn’t know one way or the other. Mr S notes a generational split in the results, with two-thirds of older people more likely to call for the law to be abolished while only a third of those between 16 and 34 years old thought the same.