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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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A Reform UK MSP has stoked further tensions in the party by accusing a former colleague at Holyrood of shouting at staff members.
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MSP → stoke → members
Senga Beresford, MSP for South of Scotland, made the accusation against Amanda Bland, who resigned from Nigel Farage’s party last week to become an independent and spoke out about the toxic culture for women in the party that feels like ‘a coercively controlled relationship’.
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that → make → relationship
But Ms Bland dismissed the claims about the way she treated staff as ‘nonsense and fabricated lies’.
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she → dismiss → nonsense
Others in the party also hit out at Ms Beresford, with one source claiming she is only speaking up because she is part of a leadership ‘clique’ and her office manager is the partner of Lord Malcolm Offord’s deputy.
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manager → hit → deputy
It indicates that the party is facing growing splits within just months of its successes in the Holyrood elections which saw it secure 17 seats, which fell to 16 last week following Ms Bland’s resignation.
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which → indicate → resignation
Ms Beresford said: ‘The only shouts I’ve heard came from her (Ms Bland’s) office, nobody shouts in here.
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nobody → say → office
I don’t know who she was shouting at, I’ve heard rumours from staffers.’
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I → know → staffers
She said she was aware of problems Ms Bland had with staff members, and added: ‘I don’t know who she was shouting at when I’ve heard her shouting because the way your office is you don’t see it and you don’t interfere with them.
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you → say → them
‘I spoke to one of her staffers right after the conference and asked if he went and he told me he wasn’t allowed to go.
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he → speak → me
He told me he had to work right up to the last minute and he wasn’t allowed to go.
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he → tell → minute
Senga Beresford has stoked further tensions in her party by accusing a former colleague at Holyrood of shouting at staff members
Amanda Bland dismissed the claims about the way she treated staff as ‘nonsense and fabricated lies’
‘Any time you say to them are you ok they just raise their eyebrows.
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they → stoke → eyebrows
According to Reform insiders, Ms Bland’s office manager, David Lees, quit his role earlier this month citing concerns about Ms Bland being curt, rude and difficult to work with, while a junior member of staff was previously sacked.
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member → accord → staff
Ms Bland had been due to attend crunch talks with party chiefs about the departures prior to her decision to become an independent.
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Bland → attend → independent
Responding to Ms Beresford’s comments, Ms Bland said: ‘All nonsense and fabricated lies, nasty tactics.’
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Bland → respond → comments
In a newspaper interview at the weekend, Ms Bland said that she experienced abusive and misogynistic behaviour from senior figures in the party in Scotland.
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she → say → Scotland
A former election candidate for the party backed up the claims by alleging that women ‘don’t get a look in’ and that there is a ‘neurotic, controlling and closed-minded culture’ within the small group of men running Reform north of the border.
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women → back → border
A Reform source hit back at Ms Beresford’s criticism of Ms Bland and claimed that she is part of a ‘clique’ at the top of the party, while her office manager Aimee Alexander is the partner of Reform’s deputy Scottish leader Thomas Kerr.
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manager → hit → leader
The source said: ‘They very much look after each other.’
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They → say → other
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