Nigel Farage's Reform UK is facing its biggest crisis since the general election today after its chairman walked out and it finished a dismal third in a by-election it was tipped to win.
Former banker Zia Yusuf quit his senior role last night after appearing to call one of the party's MPs 'dumb' for backing a burqa ban in the House of Commons.
And in a shock result in the early hour of this morning Labour's Davy Russell became the new MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.
He won by 602 votes from the SNP in a contest that First Minister John Swinney had insisted was a two-horse race between his nationalists' Katy Loudon and Reform's Ross Lambie.
Reform, who didn't stand in the constituency in 2021, took 26.1 per cent of the vote.
