Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, David H Smith, who came second in the council by-election and Kevin Crawford, who won Waterfront for the SNP.

By Bill Heaney
Nigel Farage has claimed that Reform UK are “becoming the opposition to the SNP” after their result in Thursday’s by-election in West Dunbartonshire.

On Friday morning, Farage boasted on Twitter/X: “Reform is becoming the opposition to the SNP.”

The response on the social media website was mixed.

“Reform will change this country,” one said, with another adding: “Tories are absolutely finished.”

Elsewhere, another user said: “I am so sorry for Scotland. Apparently it lost its dignity to the egoistic English nationalism. R.I.P.”

The SNP have been contacted for comment as has David H Smith.

It comes as Farage is set to visit Scotland in June ahead of a key Holyrood by-election.

He is set to travel north days before the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse vote, where Councillor Ross Lambie is hoping to take the seat for the party.