Farage’s Reform sets sights on Scotland and Wales in battle for Britain

James Buchan, a former fisherman in the Scottish port of Peterhead, has swallowed his hostility towards Nigel Farage.

The 38-year-old’s longstanding distrust of the populist Reform UK leader and Brexit campaigner has been eclipsed by his fears for the local economy, which he said had been hollowed out by decades of ruinous British government policy.

This week, he plans to vote for Reform for the first time, seeing the party’s pledges to maximise oil and gas production in the...