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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Humza Yousaf ‘naive’ about links to evangelical Christian donor, say rights groups

Sir Brian Souter
Souter helped arrange a private business dinner at a hotel in Edinburgh at Yousaf’s request last year. Photograph: Oliver Dixon/Stagecoach/PA Archive/PA Images

Civil rights groups have accused Humza Yousaf of being “naive” about his links to Sir Brian Souter, the millionaire who funds a network of conservative Christian groups that campaign against gay and women’s rights.

The Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) said Scotland’s first minister faced “serious questions” after it emerged he courted Souter despite his longstanding hostility to equal marriage, abortion rights and trans rights.

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