Reform are being forecast in several polls to do well in next year's Holyrood elections.

The upstart Reform UK party has emerged as a serious contender in British politics. The anti-immigrant populist movement has overtaken the main Conservative opposition to jostle with the ruling Labour Party for the lead in opinion polls,

Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right Reform UK party who was one of the biggest proponents of Brexit and the UK's departure from the European Union, will be put to the test in the country's local elections on Thursday.