Reform UK is set to become the official opposition at Holyrood, a poll has found, one year out from the Scottish elections.
Nigel Farage’s insurgent party is on course to become the second largest party at Holyrood, returning more MSPs than both Labour and the Conservatives, according to the Survation survey, commissioned by the PR firm True North Advisors.
Seat projections found that the SNP would comfortably remain the biggest party, in large part thanks to other pro-UK parties haemorrhaging support to Reform.
The 21 seats that Reform is predicted to pick up would represent the most remarkable rise in the history of devolution, catapulting a party currently holding no seats to opposition status despite Farage’s previous political vehicles making little impact on Scottish
