Alex Cole-Hamilton: “With the arithmetic of the parliament as it is, we're now without question the most influential and powerful group in…”

There are 2,000 Scots who, on any given night, are stuck in hospital, who should be home and could be if there was a social care package for them that just isn't there.

We have no power to control energy prices, but we do have the power to make it easier to heat Scottish homes, and the SNP just haven't delivered on that massive programme to get homes insulated.

I worry that their continued refusal to do so will only cause more problems for the institutions they are abandoning, and in the most serious cases, that could result in tragedy.

There is no Venn diagram where our council group's values could intersect with those of Reform. I just cannot see circumstances where that would happen.