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Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's politics podcast.

I'm Martin Geisler, a presenter based in Glasgow,

and I'm the host of the Sunday show where I've been interviewing senior party figures who want your vote in the general election on July

the 4th. So, how are they planning to get it? Reform UK is Nigel Farage's latest political vehicle.

They're a broad church, united, it seems, by an opposition to

immigration. But does Scotland share that same sentiment? Today, I've been speaking to Helen McDade,

who's one of the election hopefuls from Reform UK in Scotland. I asked her how she found a home

in reform following her career working at environmental charities and how exactly they want to reform the UK.

Good morning to you. Good morning, Martin. So I've just given a little bit of one sentence, a background on you there.

Former VET policy for the John Muir Trust, I think, in the past. And WWF. Yeah, and WWF. Reform, forgive me for making this observation.

Reform perhaps doesn't strike me as the most obvious home for you politically.

Why have you chosen to stand for reform?

Okay, I've got here over my lifetime.

So I've got a lifetime of experience.

And I have observed a number of things.

I come from a background.

I grew up in Thurso.

We had an active industry there, nuclear industry going there, and my father was involved in politics. So both

of these things have shaped what I see as well as what I've done. So when I started working

with environmental organisations, I had a very neutral view on, we aren't talking about climate emergency and we've changed the rhetoric, it changes, but I started asking questions about, you know, well, what about, I was there to protect wild land when I joined the John Muir Trust.

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