Search
15 Jan 2026
Search
15 Jan 2026
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Nigel Farage will announce Reform UK’s Scottish leader at a press conference on Thursday.
The party has held off on appointing a leader until just months before the election in May, despite previous assurances from deputy leader Richard Tice one would not be selected until after votes were cast.
The frontrunner for the job is believed to be Lord Offord, the peer and former Tory Scotland Office minister who defected to the party in December.
In an interview earlier this month, he said he was “in it to win it” and hoped to become First Minister one day.
He also said there were other figures in contention, but refused to say who when pressed, adding that there were some who were “not known to the public”.
Other potential names are: Graham Simpson, the party’s only current MSP; or Thomas Kerr, a high profile Glasgow councillor who has been a key spokesman for the party north of the border. Both of them defected from the Tories.
The decision, ultimately, is in the hands of Mr Farage, given the internal structures of the party.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
