Holyrood leaders 'childish' for excluding Reform, MSP says

Reform UK Scotland has accused Holyrood's other parties of "childish" tactics after they ruled out working with Malcolm Offord's group in the new parliament. The SNP, Conservatives, Lib Dems, Greens and Labour have said they will not seek to co-operate with Reform after the party made its electoral breakthrough in Scotland last week. SNP leader John Swinney has asked the leaders of each of those parties for talks as he seeks to form a new government, but not Reform Scotland chief Offord. Helen McDade, one of Reform's 17 new MSPs, called for other parties to stop "posturing". The SNP won a fifth successive Scottish election, returning 58 MSPs. Reform and Labour tied for second with 17 MSPs each, followed by the Greens on 15, the Conservatives on 12 and the Liberal Democrats on 10. McDade, elected to represent Mid Scotland and Fife, said the result showed that voters wanted parties to work together, and that Reform was "open to that". "Obviously, many of our aims may not align but many of our aims should be aligning – making Scotland better, getting our economy back on track, balancing private sector enterprise with the public sector," she told the BBC's Radio Scotland Breakfast. "We