Richard Tice’s visit to a Glasgow chippie took a dramatic turn as he revealed two more former Scottish Conservative councilors had defected to Reform UK, pushing their numbers to seven in Scotland. While there, he lashed out at First Minister John Swinney’s claims that Reform was far-right and that its leader, Nigel Farage, was “fundamentally racist.”
Tice didn’t hold back, rejecting any suggestion that his party was aligned with Trump or Putin and insisting Reform could surge to 20% in the Scottish polls by summer. With a new slogan, “Drill, Scotland, Drill”, he promised to scrap net-zero policies, arguing they were costing jobs rather than creating them, reported lbc.co.uk.
