Scotland’s First Minister has taken aim at a Reform UK councillor’s claims that Sharia Law was being brought to Glasgow, branding the comments “ludicrous, absurd and divisive”.

Glasgow councillor Audrey Dempsey made the comments to Sky News at a meeting of the party’s local branch.

She said: “When they arrived in this country and they were fitting in with our culture, our values and learning our way of life, that would be more than welcome”.

When she was asked about the meaning behind “our way of life”, Ms Dempsey responded saying: “Instead of coming and trying to inflict their culture on other people here, like Sharia law, for instance, they’re trying to bring that here, that’s just not something we celebrate”.

On who she believes is bringing Sharia law to Scotland, Ms Dempsey said it was “the asylum seekers, some of the asylum seekers, the legal migrants”.

She added that “you just have to walk through the streets of Glasgow city centre, any given day”.

However, First Minister John Swinney said he didn’t “believe for a moment” that migrants were bringing Sharia law to the country’s biggest city.

“That’s what I think is the danger of where we are just now, that absolutely ludicrous, absurd and divisive comments have been made by the far right that have the risk of undermining community cohesion in Scotland,” he added.

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