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Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

Swinney blasts Reform Scottish leader as ‘completely and utterly out of touch’

John Swinney branded Lord Malcolm Offord ‘tone deaf’ after the Reform UK Scottish leader confirmed in a TV debate that he owns six houses, five cars and six boats (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Reform UK’s Scottish leader has shown he is “completely and utterly out of touch” with ordinary Scots – after telling viewers of the TV election debate that he owns six houses, five cars and six boats, John Swinney insisted.

The SNP leader and Scottish First Minister said Malcolm Offord’s comments, made on the STV election debate on Tuesday, showed him to be “tone deaf” to the struggles some families are facing during the cost-of-living crisis.

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