Well, well, well. As Nigel Farage’s Reform party continues to poll well across the UK, north of the border the right-wing group is making yet more gains in Scotland. Now yet another Scottish Tory councillor has defected to join Reform UK, with the party announcing this morning that Alec Leishman had switched sides – as Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay was delivering a keynote speech – before dubbing the move as a ‘bitter blow’ to the Conservatives. Another one bites the dust…
The Renfrewshire councillor remarked today that he is ‘delighted’ to have joined Reform. Quick to blast his former party, Leishman proclaimed:
Scotland badly needs change. The SNP have failed our country with their narrow-minded obsession with independence but, both Labour and the Conservatives have enabled them in their policy support in Holyrood. From Net Zero madness to woke gender ideology and policing free speech, the Holyrood bubble is proving how completely detached it is from Scotland’s communities.
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