Scotland.

Scotland Elections 2026.

Check out our latest update from this week.

With all 690 candidates for the Scottish Parliament elections now confirmed, the race is now officially on across the country.

The Scottish Reform UK has published their respective manifesto. Download our briefing below to find out how their policies might affect your organisation, including deep dives into energy, health and housing.

The manifesto in brief – Reform UK 

Reform’s manifesto is built around a single central argument – that Scotland’s public services have declined not because of insufficient spending but because of misaligned incentives, ideological distraction and excessive centralisation. The remedies proposed are broad in scope: tax cuts, quango abolition, energy policy reversal, welfare reform and a restructured relationship between Holyrood and local government. 

The headline economic offer is a consolidation of Scotland’s six income tax bands into three, aligned with the rest of the UK and then set 1p below each band immediately, with a stated ambition to reach 3p below within the first parliamentary term. The party claims the initial cost of around £2bn can be absorbed through the abolition of Net Zero subsidies (currently £1bn) and savings from closing or restructuring the 132 quangos that receive a combined £6.5bn annually. 

On public finances, the manifesto is notably candid. It acknowledges Scotland’s £30bn structural deficit (approximately 12% of GDP), uses this explicitly to argue against independence, and frames economic growth rather than spending cuts as the primary route to fiscal sustainability. Every 1% of economic growth, the document notes, generates £8bn of cumulative additional tax revenues over a decade. 

Read our full Reform manifesto analysis by filling out the form below with your business email

Check back next week for more insight. You can read more election insight from England, Wales, and London here.