NIGEL Farage’s Reform UK have denied any connection to a new company which has sprung up in Scotland using their name.
Farage’s party is technically a limited company, and is registered with Companies House at a London address as Reform UK Party Ltd. Farage and fellow Reform MP Richard Tice are listed as persons with significant control, with Farage holding “more than 50% but less than 75%” of shares.
In October, an apparently mirror company was registered in Glasgow under the name Reform UK Scotland Ltd. This is not controlled by Farage, but by another company also registered in October and called Unionist Clubs Scotland Ltd.
The central Reform UK Party denied any connection existed, with a spokesperson telling this paper: “It has nothing to do with Reform UK.”
However, Unionist Clubs Scotland Ltd is controlled by two men listed as Robert Elliot and Jamie Crawford, who have both campaigned for Reform UK.
A James Crawford was elected to Wyre Council, near Blackpool, for Reform in November. He told The National that the name was a coincidence and he had no connection to Reform UK Scotland Ltd.
A Jamie Crawford campaigned for Reform UK candidate David McGowan in the Maryhill by-election in November, posting messages of support to an Orange Order Facebook group which he administrates called “#JoinontheBoyne”.
A Robert Elliot has also campaigned for Reform UK on social media, and promoted a petition to “defend our Protestant Orange culture”.
In September, the Unionist Clubs Scotland account wrote on Twitter/X: “Unionist Club Scotland chairman, Robert Elliot, attend [sic] the Reform UK party conference on Friday.
“As you can clearly see, the conference was not filled with the right-wing extremist, racists as the biased media reports would have you believe. #NotFarRight.”
The account shared an image of Elliot with two men wearing turbans.
Unionist Clubs Scotland has also promoted a “spring rally” in Glasgow on March 22, 2025. An Eventbrite page states that former Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib, former Reform UK MSP Michelle Ballatyne, and Northern Irish Unionist MP Jim Allister will all attend as speakers. Elliot and Crawford are also listed.
Unionist Clubs Scotland did not respond to request for comment on the Reform UK Scotland Ltd company.
The National previously reported on Unionist Clubs Scotland activity in 2022, after activists claiming to be with the group handed out leaflets outside Ibrox claiming that SNP politicians “detest” Rangers fans.
At the time, the group had no formal registration to speak of.
The central website states that “Unionist Clubs Scotland exists to empower Scottish Unionists whose voices have been marginalised by toxic nationalism”.
