Reform MSP leader mocked for bizarre claim that majority of Scotland is unemployed

Malcolm Offord, Reform UK's leader in Scotland, speaking at a First Minister's Questions session in June (Image: PA)

REFORM UK’s Scottish leader is accused of being “economically illiterate” after he bizarrely suggested that more than half of Scotland's population is unemployed.

Malcolm Offord, an MSP for West Scotland, is due to give one of the 12 “keynote speeches” at Reform’s conference in Birmingham.