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Tomorrow, there is a Scottish Parliament by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse which was caused by the very sad death of the wonderful SNP MSP Christine McKelvie in March.

Our candidate is my brilliant friend Aisha Mir who had done such a great job of representing the party in challenging circumstances.

Reform is throwing the kitchen sink at this campaign. Nigel Farage, again being anywhere but Clacton, came to visit earlier this week. Christine Jardine, our Scottish Affairs spokesperson, criticised him for avoiding the media during his brief visit, though I could have lived my life quite happily without the image conjured up by her first sentence:

Once again Nigel Farage is all talk and no trousers.

He’s run away rather than face the press or the voters of Hamilton.

This is just a taste of how Nigel Farage lets down everyone who ever trusts him.

There are a lot of people are frustrated that they have been let down by the SNP, Conservatives and Labour but it’s the Liberal Democrats who are offering real change, not Reform. Farage doesn’t care about getting you swift access to a local GP or dentist. We do.

Aisha on the other hand has been doing lots of media. She did an outstanding interview on Good Morning Scotland (here, from about 1 hour 38 in) in which she highlighted her own personal, very recent, experience as a carer for her mum who died recently and talked about how we had the solutions while the likes of Reform only sowed division. She rightly described their recent attack video of Labour leader Anas Sarwar as “scummy tactics.”