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Senior Scottish Tory councillor defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party has been challenging Labour and the Conservatives for top spot in recent polls (Picture: Carl Court)

How 1930s-style decline of liberalism puts world on course for war Ian Johnston

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Voting Reform in Scotland will only benefit SNP, warns Tory leader

US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in November last year (Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Elon Musk and Donald Trump alliance will not last

Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson's centre-right policies worked in the past and can do so again (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Why Tories cannot defeat Farage's Reform UK by copying their policies Murdo Fraser

Murdo Fraser MSP

Exclusive The Ruth Davidson secret to reviving the Scottish Conservatives

Elon Musk has frequently campaigned for right-wing parties

Elon Musk is getting more involved in UK politics, and what MPs think Alexander Brown

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holding a phone displaying the number of Reform UK party members whilst speaking during the Reform UK East of England conference at Chelmsford City Racecourse

Complacent progressives must find answers to voters’ frustration Henry McLeish

Jess Phillips and Elon Musk

Musk’s attacks on Phillips a ‘disgraceful smear’, Streeting says

Populists like Nigel Farage are benefiting from the public's disillusionment with mainstream political parties (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Why Labour's dissembling to win power is a gift to Nigel Farage Alistair Carmichael

Labour has made political mistakes but there is no hiding the need for tough choices about public spending and taxation (Picture: Chris Eades/WPA pool)

Why Labour could be the last hurrah for liberal democracy in UK Ian Johnston

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Elon Musk is no Jimmy Carter

Sir Keir Starmer and John Swinney (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool)

Poll: SNP to reclaim most seats lost to Labour at July election

There is a lot riding on the success or failure of Keir Starmer's government (Picture: Benjamin Cremel)

Why Labour needs to get its act together to prevent populist takeover Scotsman comment

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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage

The 5,844 reasons why Reform UK thinks it can overtake Scottish Tories

Elon Musk's ambition to Occupy Mars is commendable, but his politics are deeply alarming (Picture: Michael Gonzalez)

Elon Musk is a genius. But his influence makes me fear for democracy Ian Johnston

Why Scottish political establishment writes off Nigel Farage at their peril Euan McColm

Nigel Farage is an ally of Donald Trump despite the US President-elect's 'America First' policy (Picture: Brendan Smialowski)

Reason why populists are so thin-skinned reveals how to defeat them Stephen Gethins

MP for Clacton and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage also reportedly banked £1.5 million for appearing in the jungle in 2023. The rightwing politician was a controversial booking, but went on to come third in the series.

Reform UK sack senior Scottish figure from party

First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

Politicians must take on Reform in battle of ideas Scotsman comment

First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

SNP will focus on solutions to combat Reform, First Minister says

Anti-Brexit campaigners take part in a torchlight procession to the Scottish Parliament on the third anniversary of Brexit in January 2023 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: The only opinion poll that counts is an election

Keir Starmer has held yet another reset

Starmer's 'weak' reset a reminder Labour's majority is on shaky ground Alexander Brown

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Nigel Farage's Reform UK party is not just taking voting from the Conservatives (Picture: Chris J Ratcliffe)

Why Farage’s Reform party must now be taken seriously in Scotland Brian Monteith

Nigel Farage took some time out of his travels to share the petition

MPs should be above sharing petitions calling for an election Alexander Brown

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage to be the figurehead of Reform Holyrood election campaign

Anti-racist campaigners gathered outside the Reform UK protest.

Watch: Protestors stage noisy protest at Reform UK Scottish conference

Why it's time for a British Logan Act Alastair Stewart

Kemi Badenoch is from the right of the Conservative party, but needs to reach out to the party's liberal wing (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Badenoch must avoid lure of populism or face Truss-style disaster Scotsman comment

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has his first councillors in Scotland

Two Aberdeenshire councillors defect to Nigel Farage's Reform

Russell Findlay after he is announced as new Scottish Conservatives leader, at the Radisson Hotel in Edinburgh. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Analysis No time to waste: Why Scottish Tory leader Findlay needs to act fast

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage may be on a high now, but his balloon is about to burst in Scotland (Picture: Joe Giddens)

Why Nigel Farage's Reform party is doomed to fail in Scotland Adam Morris

Nigel Farage, seen after winning the Clacton and Harwich constituency in July's general election, could lead his Reform UK party into third place in Scottish politics (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Scots Tories must remain pro-devolution despite threat from Reform UK Murdo Fraser

Keir Starmer needs to improve his party's messaging or Nigel Farage could end up replacing him in 10 Downing Street (Picture: Benjamin Cremel/WPA pool)

If Labour keeps making blunders, Farage will be next Prime Minister Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome to talk about her approach to illegal migration (Picture: Phil Noble/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Starmer risks repeat of Tories' catastrophe mistake about immigration Scotsman comment

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and all other politicians should not have to live in fear of being attacked (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why prison threat for man who threw coffee cup at Farage is justified Scotsman comment

A police car burns as officers in riot gear restore order to the streets of Hartlepool (Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA)

Musk's desire for civil war shows need for social media crackdown Brian Wilson

Derbyshire police said they are ‘monitoring the information about any events planned’ while a ‘full operational and resourcing plan’ is in place. Pictured are riot police officers outside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which is housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

What is two-tier policing and does it exist?

An anti-migration protester brandishes a flare during a riot outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Tell tourists that riots are not happening in Scotland

Police clash with right-wing protesters in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Quietly moral leadership has helped save Scotland from far-right riots
The over-emphasis on ‘stopping the boats’ by mainstream politicians has helped create the public myth that most migrants have come to the UK illegally
Ian Johnston

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves is taking a very different approach to Liz Truss, pictured on her first day as Conservative leader, (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Analysis A bizarre Fringe hour with Liz Truss on Donald Trump and blame

Riot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024 in Southport, England. Rumours about the identity of the 17-year-old suspect in yesterday's deadly stabbing attack here have sparked a violent protest.

The far-right is on the rise, and won't be stopped with compromise Alexander Brown

Real courage comes from those calling for calm after Southport horror Euan McColm

There are good reasons to 'stop the boats' but the hard-right has managed to conflate that issue with immigration as a whole (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Appeasing hard-right repeats mistakes of Labour's plan to kill off SNP Ian Johnston

Exclusive Senior Scottish Tory brands Ross decision 'woefully ill-advised'

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage poses in a boxing ring in Clacton-on-Sea ahead of the general election (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Farage's English nationalism poses existential threat to Scots Tories Murdo Fraser

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage posing with a milkshake doesn't make assault funny, says reader (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Today a milkshake, tomorrow a machete - assault isn't funny

Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Tory party, is a rather different kind of politician to those who subscribe to the 'Popular Conservative' ideology (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

How 'pop Cons' are destroying party once epitomised by Ruth Davidson Alistair Carmichael

Nigel Farage, pictured in Manchester in October last year, when he attended the Conservative party conference (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Here's why Tories need a pact with Farage to avoid slaughter in 2026 John McLellan

Why election just gave Scotland another vital reason to back independence Kenny MacAskill

Why I fear Trump-style ‘Make England Great Again’ politics is real threat to UK Henry McLeish

Rishi Sunak and Douglas Ross at Wemyss Bay train station (Picture: John Devlin)

Analysis Where now for the Tories in Scotland and the UK?

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at Clacton Leisure Centre in Clacton, Essex, during the count for the 2024 General Election

How Reform, the Greens and Alba failed to find a foothold in Scotland

Tha an suidheachadh anns an Fhraing a’ sealltainn na dh’fhaodar tachairt nuair a tha daoine a’ cur an cùlaibh ri poileataigs àbhaisteach. (Dealbh: Olympia De Maismont/Getty Images)

Feumar daoine a thàladh air ais gu poileataigs

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