Anas Sarwar, centre, the Labour MSP, with Richard Leonard, right, the party’s leader, marched against racism in Glasgow on Saturday STEVEN SCOTT TAYLOR/ALAMYA prominent Labour MSP has urged his party to “make a decision” on a councillor who made an Islamophobic comment about the transport minister. Jim Dempster has been suspended from the party pending an investigation into a remark about Humza Yousaf, the transport minister. The Dumfries and Galloway councillor claimed that Mr Yousaf did not care about transport problems in the area. When told that the minister had visited a village in the region, he said: “He may have been at Springholm but no one would have seen him under his burka”. It’s right that Labour has suspended him but I…

Source: The Times March 19, 2018 00:00 UTC