THE Scottish Tories have been forced to suspend one of their candidates in Glasgow over “the alleged use of anti-Muslim language.”

Flora Scarabello is the second of the party’s Westminster hopefuls to be cut off by the party in little more than a week.

Because the deadline for removing her as a candidate has passed, she will still appear on the ballot paper. The Tories have said they will withdraw support for her campaign while they investigate the complaint.

It’s not clear what Scarabello is alleged to have said.

A spokesman for the Tories said a complaint had been submitted to the party’s central office about the alleged use of anti-Muslim language.

They added: “We take allegations like this extremely seriously.

“There is no place in the Scottish Conservatives for anti-Muslim language, or any other form of racial or religious discrimination.

“As such, we have immediately suspended the candidate and the complaint will be thoroughly investigated.”

Scarabello was a surprise pick for the party as she had previously publicly questioned Boris Johnson’s character at a Tory leadership hustings.

During the debate in July in Perth, Scarabello asked Johnson: “Does a good Prime Minister need to be a loyal husband and father?”

He replied that “[I] just don’t comment on that stuff, if that’s all right” and used much of the rest of his answer to warn about the dangers of a government led by Jeremy Corbyn.

Scarabello then said: “If you choose not to comment on it then you’re just going to have to let us doubtful voters come to our own conclusion, and it may not be a favourable one.”

Last week, the party were forced to axe their candidate in Aberdeen North after we revealed “unacceptable” comments about the Holocaust.

In a series of old posts made on a martial arts forum – uncovered by The National and the Twitter account @matesjacob – Ryan Houghton suggested some events around the Nazi regime’s state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews had been “fabricated”.

He also praised the “interesting" research of the discredited British historian and Adolf Hitler apologist David Irving. In another post, he suggested fellow users on the martial arts forum should have a debate on how the Holocaust had been “exaggerated by the victors.”