JUSTICE minister Humza Yousaf has branded Jeremy Corbyn a hypocrite over Labour’s failure to expel a racist councillor in Dumfries and Galloway.

The SNP minister was the butt of a racist joke told by councillor Jim Dempster at a meeting in March with officials from Transport Scotland.

The councillor said that “no-one would have seen” Yousaf, the then transport secretary because he would be wearing a “burka”.

Yousaf hit out in a post on Twitter yesterday morning, saying six months had now passed since Dempster was suspended from the party after he “admitted Islamophobia”.

The Justice Secretary said: “He should have been expelled. What have Labour done in six months? Zero, zilch, nada.

“Let’s call Corbyn out – he is utterly duplicitous when it comes to tackling racism in his own party.

“He says many warm words then fails miserably to follow it up with any action. He is a hypocrite and has been exposed as one time and time again.”

Yousaf challenged Labour leaders north and south of the Border to act, tweeting: “To @jeremycorbyn & @LabourRichard – it’s easy to turn up to anti-racism demos & take pics with minorities.

“Real test is fighting plague of racism & bigotry that exists within your own movement, on that measure you have both completely failed. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

“Ps: I’m usually a pretty calm guy, but yeah I’m pissed off. Demonstrates once again structural bias that exists in society. Switch my race with Dempster’s and imagine it was a White Govt Minister that had been racially abused by an Asian Cllr – he would’ve been expelled long ago.”

Dempster has been referred to Labour’s National Constitutional Committee, after an internal party investigation into the matter.

It is understood Yousaf and others were not contacted as part of the inquiry into Dempster’s comments.

A Scottish Labour spokesman stated: “The Labour Party takes any allegation of racism extremely seriously.”