Nigel Farage

Matt Forde

'He's going to batter me': comic Matt Forde on political impressions

Brian Leishman, the Labour MP for Alloa and Grangemouth. Picture: Michael Gillen

Exclusive Brian Leishman on why Starmer should apologise, and Corbyn's new party

New 'Corbynesque' hard-left party plays into hands of Farage and Swinney Euan McColm

Former Edinburgh councillor Mark McInnes, who has just been appointed chief executive of the UK Conservative party, is one of the Tories’ most effective political strategists

The Scot drafted in to see off 'near existential threat' to Tories John McLellan

Poll: Keir Starmer more unpopular than Nigel Farage in Scotland

Sir Rod Stewart performs onstage during day five of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Stewart declares 'music brings us together' as heat hits Glastonbury

The sun rises over Stonehenge on the summer solstice, an event that attracted record crowds of druids, sun devotees, tourists and others (Picture: Finnbarr Webster)

Why Nigel Farage is the High Druid of our burgeoning Age of Unreason Ian Johnston

Increasing taxes is not the way to create a more prosperous future (Picture: Henry Nicholls)

Why targeting wealthy non-doms means we'll all pay higher taxes Brian Monteith

Nigel Farage MP

Nigel Farage's Robin Hood-style tax policy for non-doms

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Is it really all over for the Scottish Conservatives? Alastair GJ Stewart

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Defiant Russell Findlay says Tories can win seats from SNP next year

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

Nigel Farage is a threat to the Union, warns Kemi Badenoch

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Analysis Can the Scottish Tories avoid electoral annihilation?

How Tory political black hole puts democracy at risk Henry McLeish

John Swinney outside the SNP’s base in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse before the by-election.

'SNP hasn't recovered' - Swinney admits after by-election humbling

Delegates at the Conservative party conference in 2023 pose for a photograph with Nigel Farage (Picture: Oli Scarff)

Why Tories must stop agreeing with Farage if they want to survive Scotsman comment

Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour party, celebrates with deputy leader Jackie Baillie.

The 6-point plan Scottish Labour must seize on to beat 'confused' SNP Henry McLeish

John Swinney's stances on the EU, Donald Trump and migration, among others, have won plaudits (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Mainstreaming of far-right ideas in UK shows why Swinney was right Stephen Gethins

A Reform UK election billboard poster in Larkhall

Analysis How Labour 'defied the odds' and Reform ripped up the rulebook

RECAP: Labour in stunning win after campaign against SNP, Reform

Professor Sir John Curtice (left) gives his assessment on Reform UK's vote success under leader Nigel Farage (right).

Curtice's warning for Anas Sarwar and how he rates Reform vote surge

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar celebrates victory in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election with Jackie Baillie (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Analysis 'Game on' for Labour to take power from SNP after shock by-election victory

Reform UK supporters on the party's branded open top bus on polling day. Picture: John Devlin

Analysis Polls close in key Hamilton by-election that will shape fates

Reform UK party chairman Zia Yusuf speaks during a press conference in Westminster.

Reform UK chairman resigns in blow for Nigel Farage

John Swinney in Hamilton ahead of the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Analysis Huge Holyrood ramifications on the line after Hamilton by-election

First Minister John Swinney's SNP government has blocked a £2.5 million grant for a specialist welding centre in Glasgow

Readers' Letters: SNP would leave Scots defenceless in face of aggressive Russia

Nigel Farage is an English nationalist who doesn't care about Scotland (Picture: Carl Court)

Farage let his mask slip and revealed what he'd really do to Scotland Jackie Baillie

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

Anas Sarwar claims Farage has 'crashed Reform's by-election campaign'

John Swinney, Anas Sarwar and Nigel Farage

Hamilton by-election: Professor Sir John Curtice gives his predictions

Anas Sarwar and Nigel Farage

Anas Sarwar admits 'guilt' over impact Farage abuse has on family

Reform leader Nigel Farage holds a press conference in Aberdeen on Monday

Analysis Nigel Farage dodges media and protesters during a farce in Hamilton

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the BAE Systems' Govan facility yesterday (Picture: Andy Buchanan - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government's stance on defence spending misguided

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks at a press conference in Aberdeen ahead of the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election (Picture: Peter Summers)

Why greater scrutiny of Reform UK will benefit Nigel Farage Brian Monteith

Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage

RECAP Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer visit Scotland

First Minister John Swinney with Rory Lees, aged 2, during a visit to Juniors Charity in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, while on the campaign trail ahead of the upcoming Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election on Thursday

Swinney takes aim at 'real threat' of Farage's 'far-right' politics

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in Aberdeen

Two more Scottish councillors defect to Reform

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses outside a pub in Morpeth, Northumberland, on the local election campaign trail in April

Love him or loathe him, Nigel Farage is coming to Scotland Alastair GJ Stewart

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party are confident of a good result in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Those in politics for right reasons must stand together against Reform Christine Jardine

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

Reform continues to outspend rivals in online by-election battle

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

Rise of Nigel Farage's Reform UK boosts support for independence

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Analysis Bowls, bus shelters and race rows: The fight for Hamilton

Nigel Farage (centre) on the Royal Mile being escorted by police officers as he leaves the Canons' Gait pub in 2013, while Ukip leader. Protestors heckled him during his visit to Edinburgh.

Explainer Arrests, protests, and fleeing the pub - Farage's visits to Scotland

Anas Sarwar and Nigel Farage

Anas Sarwar hits back at 'poisonous' Farage over 'sectarianism' row

Nigel Farage aims not be a hammer of the Scots, but their salvation (Picture: Chris J Ratcliffe)

Farage's journey to becoming Scotland's saviour may start next week Brian Monteith

John Swinney, Anas Sarwar and Nigel Farage

John Swinney admits Hamilton by-election now 'three-way contest'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Sarwar losing Holyrood election could spark Labour attempt to oust PM

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage on the campaign trail. Picture: PA

Reform's advert blitze ahead of crunch by-election

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