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PM Farage a very real possibility, claims Swinney
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage with his party's candidates onstage during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025

SCOTTISH First Minister John Swinney admitted yesterday he is fearful of what lies ahead as he warned that a Nigel Farage premiership is a very real possibility.

The SNP leader made the comment after Reform UK gained more than 600 council seats and control of 10 authorities in Thursday’s English local government elections, in results that the right-wing party’s newly elected MP for Runcorn & Helsby Sarah Pochin claimed demonstrated “faith in Nigel Farage as the next prime minister.”

Mr Swinney said: “I think it is very real possibility that that could happen. It makes me very fearful of what lies ahead.”

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