It’s all go in Scotland today. Nigel Farage made a quick stop in Aberdeen to announce his latest Tory defector before hopping in a helicopter to Hamilton to reveal his party’s first Labour defector: Renfrewshire councillor Jamie McGuire. The 24-year-old has represented the Renfrew North and Braehead ward on the Renfrewshire council for just over three years, after being elected in May 2022. His defection today makes him Renfrewshire council’s third Reform councillor after John Gray and Alec Leishman jumped ship from the Tories earlier this year.
McGuire has a long history with the Labour Party, being the ex-chair of the Glasgow University Labour club and the former secretary of Scottish Labour Students and Scottish Young Labour. McGuire previously worked in Holyrood as a parliamentary staffer and as well as being a Scottish Labour councillor, he most recently worked between Scotland and Westminster as a parliamentary researcher for Alison Taylor, the Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North.
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