Reform UK’s Scottish leader Malcolm Offord did us all a favour putting the subject of wealth firmly in the spotlight.

In a recent STV debate, ahead of the Holyrood elections, he said he owned six houses, five cars and six boats.

When he asked the Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer if he wanted Scotland to have more people like him or fewer, Greer said the latter.

I’m not sure whether Greer was more miffed by the size of Offord’s bank balance or what he chose to spend it on.

But if it was the latter, then in a two-car household with two Vespa scooters and a motorbike, I wonder if he thinks fewer folk like me are needed too.

Some houses near me have three and four cars in their drives; maybe they should think of emigrating if the Greens win a share of power on Thursday.

The debate between Offord and Greer was a clash of competing philosophies.

One is a 62-year-old businessman brought up in a Greenock tenement who claims that in a 40-year business career he has employed hundreds of thousands of people and paid £45 million tax.

The other is a 31-year-old brought up in the leafy Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, who’s........

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