OFFORD BACKS 'FRUITY' CANDIDATE

REFORM'S Scots leader has refused to sack a Holyrood candidate who backed thug Tommy Robinson and called for Muslims to be deported - saying her comments were “fruity”.

- BY PAUL HUTCHEON

Malcolm Offord said Senga Beresford's views were made in a “former life”.

But he suspended another, Stuart Niven, who is banned from being a director for seven years for wrongly pocketing Covid grants.

Beresford, who is standing in Galloway and West Dumfries, endorsed convicted criminal Robinson less than two years ago.