Greens need ‘most effective’ Holyrood campaign to counter Reform, says Ross Greer

Scottish Green co-leader Ross Greer said his party has to run its “biggest and most effective” Holyrood election campaign ever in a bid to counter the rising popularity of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Reform currently has just one MSP at Holyrood, who defected from the Tories, but polling ahead of next May’s Scottish election suggests the party could return a sizeable group – with some polls even showing Farage’s party in second place.

Greer said he is focused on “defeating the really hateful politics that are going to arrive in this Parliament come May”, declaring this to be “unbelievably important for the future of this country”.

To do that, he said his party has to run its best Holyrood election campaign yet.

Speaking to the PA news agency, Greer said: “The only way we can be that coun