Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon and the wife of former first minister Humza Yousaf have signed a letter which insists that the far right are not “defenders of women”.

Sturgeon and Nadia El-Nakla have put their names to the letter, which seeks to “reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls”.

It has been backed by 200 women and organisations, with other signatories including actress and comedian Elaine C Smith, authors Val McDermid and Denise Mina, and musician and actor Clare Grogan.

MSPs and councillors have also put their names to it, along with musician Iona Fyfe and leading trade union figures, including Andrea Bradley, the general secretary of the EIS teaching union, and Roz Foyer, the general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Council.

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