Labour Leader Criticises Peer Over Nigel Farage Race Remarks

A senior Labour politician branded Reform’s first ever peer “odious” over comments Nigel Farage made schoolchildren whose first language is not English.

Farage pointed out in a campaign video that 29% of Glasow primary schoolchildren have English as a second language and called it “the cultural smashing” of the city.

Lord Offord, who was a minister in the last Tory government, said he “wouldn’t use that language” himself.

But Sarwar told him: “Why are you presuming they’re new migrants, why are you presuming they don’t speak English and why are Reform using Glasgow children to spread your bile and poison into our communities? It’s utterly shameful.

“You might not agree with the language, Lord Offord, but you need to own it because that is what you are part of now.

“You are part of a political party that deliberately spends tens of thousands of pounds questioning my loyalty to Scotland lots of other people’s loyalty to Scotland, and all you really are is a poisonous, odious man hiding behind the badge of Reform, looking to divide our communities rather than change our communities.”