Nigel Farage insists he will be campaigning in Scotland ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election.
The Reform UK leader’s comments came as a recent poll put the party on 9% in the constituency vote in less than two years’ time, just two percentage points behind the Scottish Conservatives.
On the regional list vote, the Survation survey for pro-union campaign group Scotland in Union suggested Reform could win 8%, with the Tories sitting on 11%.
Speaking to STV News, the Reform leader said: “I can assure you, Scotland will be seeing me, of that there is no question at all.
“I think that really, from very little acorns, we’ve made a very good start… I will be in Scotland next year, thinking about planning a year ahead for the Scottish elections.”
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Mr Farage also suggested “no-one knows what the Scottish Conservatives are, what they stand for”.
In the wake of the Survation poll, Scottish Tory leadership candidate Murdo Fraser said it must act as a “wake-up call” to the party.
“With no infrastructure or elected representatives in Scotland, Reform is at our heels,” he said.
“We can’t carry on as we are – we need real change, and that is what I will deliver.”
Reform UK won 7% of the vote in Scotland in July’s general election.
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