Reform UK

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is arguably the individual most responsible for Brexit, but that's not the worst thing he has done, says Ian Johnston. Picture: Carl Court

How Farage is doubling-down on one of the worst things he's ever done Ian Johnston

Zack Polanski, centre, leader of the Greens in England and Wales, seen with Scottish Greens' co-leaders Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer earlier this year. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Reform UK are bad enough, but the real extremists are the Greens Murdo Fraser

First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Crieff this week (Picture: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney wrong to swerve question on Scottish Greens

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, with her husband, Hamish, leaves the stage to applause after delivering her keynote speech at the party's conference in Birmingham (Picture: Jacob King/WPA pool)

Why Kemi Badenoch has the same star quality as Ruth Davidson John McLellan

Sagal Abdi-Wala won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Labour holds onto Holborn and St Pancras

Activists protest against data centres outside the Scottish Parliament last month (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Democracy in action shows how cynicism of populists can be defeated Dr Bernhard Blumenau

Malcolm Offord, Leader of Reform UK Scotland and Thomas Kerr, Deputy Leader of Reform UK Scotland

Reform 'fanning the flames of division' over burqa ban debate

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, seen at last year's part conference, should consider announcing a new deal for pensioners (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Tories have big problem over decision to scrap pension triple lock Adam Morris

Nigel Farage

Reform removes Nigel Farage content after complaint by Holyrood bosses

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party is in the money after two donations totalling £72 million (Picture: Oli Scarff)

Independence: Nigel Farage addresses claims he is threat to the union

Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord called for a vote of no confidence in SNP drugs minister Maree Todd (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: SNP and Reform UK fiddling while Rome burns

Reform UK leader in Scotland, Lord Malcolm Offord, marched his MSPs out of the Holyrood chamber over a debate on independence

Watch: Reform MSPs storm out of Holyrood over independence debate

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party is in the money after two donations totalling £72 million (Picture: Oli Scarff)

The answer to Reform's £72m question: votes must be earned, not bought Christine Jardine

Collette Stevenson MSP at the transport committee.

We cannot have five more years of incompetence and disappointment Rachel Amery

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Explainer Why's Westminster debating party donations after Reform receives £72m?

Ulrich Siegmund, of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, poses with an election poster reading 'deportations starting minute one' (Picture: Sean Gallup)

The lesson from East Germany which mainstream parties must listen to Dr Fred Paxton

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Reform UK under criminal investigation amid 'donation rules breach'

Nigel Farage, pictured on the second day of his party's conference, has been having a difficult time of late (Picture: Oli Scarff)

Why Tories who defected to Reform UK are starting to regret it Murdo Fraser

John Laurie, as Private Frazer, and Arthur Lowe, as Captain Mainwaring, during an episode of BBC comedy Dad's Army in 1977 (Picture: McCarthy/Express)

John Swinney's Captain Mainwaring act is breaking trust in politics Jackie Baillie

The newly-elected Reform UK MSPs outside the Scottish Parliament.

Reform UK needs to become an effective opposition to win in 2031 Rachel Amery

Malcolm Offord during his conference speech

Analysis Offord speech was like being stuck with your boss on a work night out

A protester is removed from the Reform UK conference, with footage showing one woman being assaulted by audience members after interrupting Nigel Farage's speech on Friday.

Exclusive Reform's Thomas Kerr condemns violence against protester at conference

Will Nigel Farage, seen with Scottish party leader Malcolm Offord at a rally in Falkirk last year, be able to rely on SNP support in the event of a hung Westminster parliament after the next election? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

SNP offer to put Farage in power shows nationalism's true colours William Deans

Jubilant Glasgow University graduates - but are too many young people going to university (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' letters: Higher education needs a major rethink

Nigel Farage called protesters 'boring'

Analysis Nigel Farage endures chaotic protest-ridden conference speech

A demonstrator shouts whilst Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers a keynote speech during the Reform UK National Conference, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham

How I was nearly ejected from Reform UK's chaotic party conference Andrew J Quinn

Nigel Farage

Two key Nigel Farage aides step down after Channel 4 report

Sir John Curtice

Curtice: Politics has 'fragmented' and class is no longer so important

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Can Labour maintain the ‘Burnham bounce’? Rachel Amery

Malcolm Offord MSP, Scottish leader of Reform UK

Reform UK's Malcolm Offord diagnosed with prostate cancer

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has already lost, no matter the result in Clacton Alistair Carmichael

Former first minister Henry McLeish

Exclusive Ex-first minister's warning to Scottish Labour amid bitter infighting

Proposals to replace Eyemouth primary have been ongoing for 11 years

A Borders town and an 11-year fight for new primary school

Former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer

Monica Lennon: Sir Keir Starmer was a 'selfish and stubborn' PM

Monica Lennon

Monica Lennon officially launches Scottish Labour leadership bid

Ann Widdecombe speaking during a Reform UK General Election campaign launch in Westminster, London.

Ann Widdecombe 'struck 21 times on head with hammer', court hears

Three of the candidates tipped to succeed Nigel Farage.

Next Reform Leader Odds: 13 favourites tipped to follow Nigel Farage

Buchanan Street, the heart of Lawless Glasgow

Glasgow is lawless? Thomas Kerr misses the true spirit of the city Catriona Stewart

Andy Burnham gives a speech in Gravesend in his first official visit as leader of the Labour party (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

'A very rude awakening': Andy Burnham is about to shake things up Brian Wilson

Andy Burnham will soon be UK prime minister, despite not being an MP when the Labour Party became the new UK government at the last general election (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Explainer Andy Burnham to be crowned Labour leader today - but he's not PM yet

Sir Keir Starmer during his last Prime Minister's Questions

Analysis Sir Keir Starmer able to mock self in emotional last ever PMQs

Protesters make a point outside a Reform UK rally in Leeds in March (Picture: Oli Scarff)

How Nigel Farage's attempt to copy Donald Trump is backfiring badly Alistair Carmichael

Robert Jenrick MP

Robert Jenrick investigated over foreign donations

Readers' Letters: Public will see Farage's election call for the stunt it is

Count Binface is preparing to stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election (Picture: Leon Neal)

Farage facing a long, hot summer as the Count Binface jokes begin Scotsman comment

A wind turbine under construction in Nigg on the Cromarty Firth earlier this year (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

How Reform's hostility to net zero puts North East's future at risk Mercedes Villalba

Malcolm Offord MSP and Nigel Farage MP

Offord: 'Establishment stitch-up' as parties reject Farage by-election

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Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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