Reform UK Scotland

Reform Party Scotland was founded on 11 January 2021, shortly following the rebranding of the UK Brexit Party to Reform UK.^[2] In December 2025, Scottish Conservative politician Malcolm Offord defected to Reform.^[3] Reform UK leader Nigel Farage made Offord leader of the Scottish Reform wing on 15 January 2026.^[4] On 6 March, it was announced that he was contesting a seat in the Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Inverclyde.^[5]

Reform won their first council seat in Scotland on 12 December 2025.^[6][7][8]

At the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, the party won 17 seats, tying with Scottish Labour for second place at Holyrood.^[9] Offord failed to win the Inverclyde constituency,^[10] but was elected to Holyrood via the West Scotland regional list.^[9] Following the election, the party's Holyrood group elected Thomas Kerr as its deputy leader. Kerr, a former Scottish Conservative councillor for Shettleston who defected to Reform UK in January 2025, was elected as a Glasgow regional list MSP.^[11][12] The party campaigned on anti-immigrant rhetoric during the election.^[13] The Reform Party Scotland manifesto, released in March 2026, outlines plans to fix the NHS, give local councils more power, parliamentary reform, and changing the housing system to focus more on local residents.^[14]