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Martin Compston Urges Voters to Back SNP to ‘Keep Farage Out of Scotland’
Compston said Reform wants to cut Scotland’s budget and privatize the NHS as he urged voters to unite behind the SNP, citing a possible Labour deal.
- On Friday, actor Martin Compston joined First Minister John Swinney on the campaign trail in Inverclyde, urging Scots to unite behind the SNP to keep Nigel Farage's "toxic politics out of Scotland."
- Tensions escalated after Reform UK Scotland leader Lord Malcolm Offord alleged Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar proposed a pact to remove the SNP, claims Sarwar dismissed as "nonsense."
- Compston accused Scottish Labour of being "willing to work with" Farage, while Swinney stated: "I will have nothing to do with Nigel Farage, his man in Scotland Lord Malcolm Offord, or Reform UK."
- Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie labeled the First Minister "dishonest," arguing the SNP funds advertising promoting Offord's claims regarding Sarwar's alleged "grubby deal."
- With the election scheduled for May 7, Compston argued the ultimate "way to lock Farage out of Scotland for good is by becoming an independent country.
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