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How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland

Scotland, Reform UK gained 17 MSPs. In north-east England, if the local election results

Historic win for SNP but change and challenges ahead at Holyrood

Scotland. With dozens of new faces arriving at Holyrood in the coming days and weeks, including a big bloc of brand new Reform UK MSPs

SNP wins Scottish election as Reform and Labour tie for second

Reform UK - led in Scotland by [former Tory peer Malcolm Offord](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m7pznk8n3o) - would become a major force at Holyrood. The party, promising tax cuts and action to curb immigration, had never

Swinney predicts SNP majority at Holyrood election

MSPs pushing him out of his comfort zone if we are to deliver the change that Scotland needs." A Reform UK

Major test for Labour as polls open in English, Scottish and Welsh elections

Reform went from zero to 5% with the election of 677 councillors. In Scotland, 129 MSPs will be voted into Holyrood, where they will debate and pass laws on all devolved matters, including education, health

What impact do refugees have on housing in Glasgow?

Scotland's election debate](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2r89y9n3go), Reform UK's Scottish leader Malcolm Offord claimed that "people arriving immediately to Glasgow, the asylum city of the UK, are given priority, they are jumping the queue

Six things to watch out for in the Scottish election

Scotland and Richard Tice UK-wide, the party managed just 0.2% of the list vote. But after Nigel Farage returned to the front lines the party has exploded in national polls and is hoping

May elections live: millions cast their votes across England, Scotland and Wales

UK leader said: > double quotation markThe Tories tried to remove the gutless Keir Starmer and failed. > > The only way to finally remove the most unpopular and unpatriotic prime minister in our lifetime is to back

SNP leader John Swinney rules out Holyrood talks with Reform UK

UK government, which has repeatedly refused to countenance the idea. However, he insisted Holyrood had a mandate for such a vote, pointing out that between the SNP and Greens there were more pro-independence MSPs

Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK

Reform could get committee convenership posts. Swinney said the three leaders were likely to challenge the UK government’s increasing use of the Internal Markets Act, a measure designed to harmonise the UK’s internal

Starmer’s unpopularity was insurmountable for Scottish Labour – and a boon for Reform

Scotland in [a racist ad](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/29/nigel-farage-anas-sarwar-obsessed-race-hamilton-byelection). And a party that the SNP leader, John Swinney, has described as [an acute threat to devolution](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/30/reform-is-an-acute-threat-to-scottish-self-government-says-john-swinney). While, unlike Westminster, Holyrood has no “official

Scottish Labour leader calls claim he tried to do Reform deal a ‘desperate lie’

Scotland leader, Malcolm Offord, that he offered to do a deal with the hard-right party to keep the Scottish National party out of power. Offord made the claim on Channel 4’s Scottish leaders

Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout

reforms which comes into force this week and will make it illegal for a landlord to evict a tenant without a reason. The freeze which Reeves is now considering would go further however – albeit