We were racially abused on UK seaside holiday, says councillor

A Leeds councillor who was recently elected the co-deputy leader of the Green Party has shared details of how he and his family were racially abused and attacked while on a UK seaside holiday.

- by Charles Gray

Coun Mothin Ali was voted in as the Green Party's new deputy leader alongside Rachel Millward last Tuesday, with Zack Polanski being voted in overwhelmingly as the new leader of the party.

Coun Ali, who only became a member of Leeds City Council last May, said it was a "huge honour" to be elected to the role and added: "The work starts now."

He went on to say that "politics in this country is at a precipice", pointing to the "rise of the far-right", and said that he was willing to "take the fight" to Labour and Reform.