Labour dismisses Reform UK MSP candidates as ‘hopeless Tory rejects and oddballs’ as one is suspended – as it happened

This blog is now closed Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor. Malcolm Offord, Reform UK’s Scottish leader, has doubled down on his defence of the party’s vetting by dismissing remarks by candidates backing Tommy Robinson or describing Humza Yousaf as an “Islamist moron” (see 10.12am) as “fruity language”. It has taken a matter of hours for Reform Scotland’s big launch to fall apart and their true colours to show. If Nigel Farage refuses to act and remove this candidate, Malcolm O...

By Andrew Sparrow