Wilma Brown, a trade union activist, had been aiming to reclaim the Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency.
Scottish Labour has suspended its candidate for one of its key Westminster target seats after she liked and shared a series of "racist" tweets.
The viral clip is often used by right-wingers against the SNP leader. The speech from 2020 was about racial injustice and Yousaf said that most positions of power in Scotland are held by white men. She also liked a post which said Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer should be "removed from the Scottish Parliament immediately for his antisemitism and extremism".A Labour Party spokesperson said: "The Labour Party takes all complaints seriously.
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