Claims extracted
21
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0 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Lord Malcolm Offord has accused an MSP who quit Reform of seeking to ‘squat’ at Holyrood for five years.
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who → accuse → years
The Reform UK Scotland leader condemned Amanda Bland for refusing to stand down despite only securing her seat on the party’s regional list for Central Scotland and Lothians West.
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leader → condemn → Scotland
Lord Offord admitted his former justice spokesman’s departure – which saw Reform drop into third place at Holyrood behind Labour – was ‘annoying and irritating’ but insisted it won’t ‘derail’ the party.
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it → admit → party
He also claimed Holyrood has a ‘poisonous atmosphere’ but denied that Reform has added to the levels of vitriol.
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Reform → claim → vitriol
On Monday, Ms Bland announced she was quitting Reform ‘after careful deliberation’.
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she → announce → deliberation
She will now sit as an independent MSP, claiming she can still achieve her goals of holding the Scottish Government to account and representing her constituents.
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she → sit → constituents
Lord Offord acknowledged Graham Simpson was previously in the same situation when he was elected as a Tory regional list MSP then defected to Reform last year.
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he → acknowledge → Reform
But he said: ‘He did it after four-and-a-half years.
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He → say → years
It was only eight months left in the parliamentary term and he had worked out that the Conservative Party had completely given up in Scotland, and had no ambition whatsoever to be the opposition.
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Party → leave → ambition
Amanda Bland announced she was quitting Reform ‘after careful deliberation’ on Monday
Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord accused Ms Bland of squatting at Holyrood
‘With Amanda Bland, it’s only four or five months since we were in there.
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we → announce → Bland
So she is now proposing to squat for four-and-a-half years in a list place won by Reform.
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she → propose → Reform
‘It just looks to the voting public that there is a distinction between a constituency MSP, where you have won a personal mandate, and a list MSP, where you are literally there just on the vote for the party.’
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you → look → party
During an interview on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast, Lord Offord said he was ‘disappointed’ by Ms Bland’s departure, adding she is ‘talented and bright’.
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she → say → departure
He then added: ‘We also want people who are prepared to work as a team.’
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who → add → team
He further admitted that Reform MSPs have been ‘taken by surprise’ by the levels of vitriol at Holyrood, and called it ‘a pretty poisonous atmosphere’.
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MSPs → admit → it
But he denied his party has contributed to this, saying: ‘We speak in measured language but we talk the truth.’
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we → deny → truth
On his party slipping into third place, which means the loss of some parliamentary privileges including the right to press John Swinney first at First Minister’s Questions, he said: ‘It is annoying and irritating but doesn’t actually derail what we are trying to do.’
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we → slip → what
He claimed that since Michael Marra’s appointment, Scottish Labour’s leader has been ‘cosying up to the SNP’ and claimed he would ‘lead the opposition against what looks like a cosy consensus between Labour and the SNP’.
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what → claim → Labour
Asked about weekend reports that police are assessing a complaint about Reform UK candidates for Holyrood breaking spending rules, Lord Offord said these were ‘purely administrative errors’, insisting there is ‘nothing more to see than that’.
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these → ask → that
He claimed the details were filled in but not submitted properly.
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details → claim → ?
The West of Scotland MSP also admitted that a recent ITV documentary showed ‘appalling’ footage involving Reform candidates, but said it is not a racist party and the programme only showed ‘a handful’ of racists who should be rooted out and suspended.
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who → admit → racists
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