Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is currently polling at levels which could put them in with a chance of winning the next general election.

And it looks highly likely the party will return a raft of MSPs at next year’s ­Holyrood election. But Farage offers no real solutions to the problems faced by working families in Scotland. He blames immigrants and ­vulnerable groups for society’s ills – from poor housing and low wages to NHS waiting lists.

You’ll rarely hear him blame the UK’s troubles on the grotesque inequality that sees workers made poorer while the rich get richer. That’s because he is a millionaire himself – a former private schoolboy who became a wealthy commodities trader and property tycoon.

His entire political career has been designed to protect the super-rich and........

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