OVER MANY YEARS I’ve watched how the SNP handles its public finance responsibilities when in power in Scotland. It would
WHILE CULTURAL AND GEOPOLITICAL EXPLANATIONS are often invoked, much of the most durable pressure still sits in what used to
THE PRIME MINISTER has to be very carefully scrutinised and challenged on every vague euphemism that trips from his lips,
FOR YEARS SCOTLAND HAS PURSUED the merger of health and social care as a structural reform. The aim has been
IN THE REFORM UK HAMILTON CONSTITUENCY OFFICE in May 2025, one person was lunching on a Pot Noodle and another
NO POLITICIAN FOR A GENERATION has been able to answer the question: how do you solve a problem like the
GOVERNANCE OF NHS SCOTLAND has long been centralised, with the Scottish Government exercising considerable influence over Health Boards. Currently, the
ONE OF THE REASONS I was attracted to Malcolm Offord becoming leader of Reform UK Scotland, was that he not
WHEN I WAS A STUDENT, I had a Voltaire quote pinned above my desk: “Those who can make you believe
UNDER REFORM UK, the NHS in Scotland will remain free at the point of need and will be fully funded