Candidate’s ‘racist’ Twitter posts came
aid workers, innocent civilians and basic infrastructure”.
Sarwar said: “To me, it is clear that the actions of the Israeli forces do not comply with international humanitarian law and therefore the sales of arms to Israel should stop. We need the violence to end right now.”
Speaking to journalists afterwards, Sarwar would not confirm or deny whether he would support the continuation of arms sales if UK Government lawyers found there was no breach of international law.
The UK Labour Party’s position is that if the legal advice says arms exports should stop, then they should. However, Sarwar’s speech yesterday marked a clear
ANAS Sarwar has insisted that a suspended Scottish Labour Westminster candidate’s “racist” Twitter posts only happened after she was selected to represent the party.
After speaking at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) annual congress in Dundee yesterday, Sarwar told The National that Scottish Labour has a “robust due diligence process” for selecting Westminster candidates.
His comments came after Wilma Brown was suspended from the party last Wednesday after it was found that she had engaged with “racist, Islamophobic, and transphobic” tweets.
Brown was selected as a candidate for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in April 2023. She was found to have liked tweets which were dated after her selection as a candidate, with the activity only coming to light several months later.
It is unclear whether Brown interacted with similar tweets before her selection, which may have been flagged by Scottish Labour’s vetting system. She has since deleted her Twitter/X account, making it