Severin Carrell, the Guardian‘s ‘Scotland Editor‘ has this today:

Reform UK has suspended one of its Scottish candidates after it emerged he had been struck off as a company director, and the party faces growing attacks for fielding candidates making Islamophobic remarks.

Reform confirmed on Friday morning it had suspended Stuart Niven, its candidate for Dundee City West, after the Herald revealed he had been struck off after diverting tens of thousands of pounds of Covid grants into his personal account.

Several hours after that admission, claims within Reform’s Scottish manifesto that it could save billions of pounds in Holyrood spending were dismissed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank, which described many of its pledges as “not fiscally credible” and “unserious at best”.

Reform had faced a succession of attacks from across the political spectrum about the conduct of several candidates only hours after Nigel Farage unveiled the 73 Reform UK hopefuls standing for May’s Scottish parliament election. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/20/reform-uk-suspends-scottish-candidate-stuart-niven

See that ‘across the political spectrum’ bit? You might justifiably expect to hear what the larger SNP and Conservative parties had to say about Reform UK. Maybe even the Greens after they beat them in Manchester?

What follows is 13 paragraphs featuring comment only from Anas Sarwar and a big picture of him looking like a head boy pretending to be a politician.

Could Severin have broadened his writing ‘across the political spectrum or have the other parties been too quiet on Reform UK to be heard? Nope, see the image at the top of this report.