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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell

How voter dissatisfaction could give Reform a Holyrood byelection boost

Two people walk past a shuttered shop front on a building with an election poster saying 'Hamilton needs reform' in capitals and a picture of a grinning Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage looks down from a Reform UK election poster in Hamilton. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

“It’s going to be interesting to see how many people vote for them,” says Karen, a nurse from Larkhall, South Lanarkshire.

“Labour and the SNP are expected to be the main contenders in this byelection, but more and more people are talking about Reform.”

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