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'Grow up': Reform UK Defends Its Holyrood 2026 Candidates for Past Comments
Reform UK defends 73 candidates despite backlash over endorsements of far-right figures and anti-Muslim posts, with party saying 80% are non-politicians who have made past controversial remarks.
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Labour dismisses Reform UK MSP candidates as ‘hopeless Tory rejects and oddballs’ as one is suspended – as it happened
This blog is now closed Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor. Malcolm Offord, Reform UK’s Scottish leader, has doubled down on his defence of the party’s vetting by dismissing remarks by candidates backing Tommy Robinson or describing Humza Yousaf as an “Islamist moron” (see 10.12am) as “fruity language”. It has taken a matter of hours for Reform Scotland’s big launch to fall apart and their true colours to show. If Nigel Farage ref…
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