So you can understand why Shahid Butt is the candidate of the moment to “unite” the United Kingdom. Shahid Butt says he believes he is the ‘ideal candidate’ to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds. Butt was convicted on terror charges in 1999 amid claims he was part of a terrorist enterprise conspiring to terrorise Yemen. But only in the UK can a Muslim terrorist plot to bomb the British consulate, move there and run for office to destroy the UK. Police have also reopened the file on Shahid Butt, a convicted terrorist from Birmingham who has been accused of siphoning money to accounts linked with terrorist groups.