Reform UK ‘bullish and optimistic’ as polls predict success in Scotland

Richard Tice said the prospect of being the third largest party ‘puts us in a very interesting position’. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Reform UK is celebrating “an extraordinary sense of momentum” north of the border, as Scotland’s top polling expert predicts the populist right party could end up deciding the next Holyrood government.

The deputy leader, Richard Tice, said his party’s mood was “bullish and optimistic” as it held its first Scottish conference in Perth on Saturday.