Kate Nevens: “For him to ignore that record and instead blame migrants for economic hardship and struggling councils is shameless…”

They need to urgently end all contracts with companies complicit in the genocide, as well as companies involved in the illegal Israeli settlement building programme in the West Bank.

When the Government finally gets the courage to act on their own commitment, they will have our full support.

Offord was a Tory peer and government minister while his party imposed austerity, slashed public services, and damaged communities across Scotland.

This is a major setback for human rights and a day that many trans people, and those who love them, have been dreading.