Taking on the role of a latter-day Aske, though hopefully without the gruesome consequences, is pub owner Michael Westwood ... on to a further 100 had Nigel Farage not returned to lead Reform.

But the kind of politics espoused by Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party? They lie outside the spectrum, suggests Mr Swinney. Why? Because of our shared Scottish values. ‘I want us to work ...