2 May 2025, 16:55 | Updated: 2 May 2025, 17:09

By Gina Davidson

Scottish politics is holding its breath.

The remarkable results for Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, has turned theoretical opinion polling into hard political reality.

Taking votes from both the Conservatives and Labour - overturning a massive 15,000 Labour majority in Runcorn - shows that Reform is not another flash-in-the-pan UKIP or Brexit party, it is a whole lot more; tapping into an economic discontent felt by voters the length and breadth of England.

And that discontent doesn’t stop at the border.

We know that Farage has his eye on winning the Welsh elections next year, and while in Scotland Reform polls around half the numbers as it does in England (14% to 25% down south) if that support is sustained until next May, then it could see the party send double-figure MSPs into Holyrood.

It could even........

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