US EditionMillionaire former Tory donor defects to Reform
Malcolm Offord will resign his House of Lords seat to run for Reform UK in Scotland's 2026 Holyrood election, aiming to challenge the SNP after 18 years in power.
- Millionaire former Tory donor Lord Offord has defected from the Conservative Party to join Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage.
- Lord Malcolm Offord said he was leaving because the Scottish Conservative Party have given up on Scotland and vowed to remove this rotten SNP government after 18 years.
- The Greenock-born financier was made a life peer in 2021 and served as a minister of exports from 2023 until the 2024 general election, having donated nearly £150,000 to the Scottish Conservatives.
- The defection hands Reform UK its first Scottish member in the House of Lords and could weaken the Scottish Conservatives as polls rise to the high teens and around 20 per cent ahead of next year's Holyrood election.
- Nigel Farage remains personally unpopular with 69 percent of Scots unfavourable, even as Reform UK secured a £9 million donation and faces local tensions in Falkirk with rival protests.
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