Richard Tice clashes with Scottish journalist as he’s accused of not knowing Reform defectors’ names

Richard Tice appears not to know latest Reform defectors' full names PA

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00:00Tom Gordon from the Daily Mail. Who are your defectors today and where are they from?

00:05So we've got, I've got John and Ross and they're from...

00:08What are their surnames? I don't know John and Ross.

00:10Are you going to challenge me on everything or are you going to ask a policy question?

00:12Challenge on that.

00:13Well I'm answering policy questions.

00:15What are their surnames?

00:16I'm asking policy questions about how we make people better off.

00:18My question.

00:19Good.

00:20My choice of question to you is what are their full names?

00:22John and Ross.

00:23And what councils are they from?

00:24John and Ross.

00:25What councils are they from?

00:26Next question.

00:27You cannot tell me who your council defectors are today.

00:29Why not?

00:30Do you know anything about Scottish politics?

00:33You can't even name your own members up here.

00:36We've got 10,000 members. I don't know all 10,000 members.

00:39You don't know their surnames.

00:41You've called a press conference for these guys and you can't even tell me their names.

00:44What we have got is policies that will make people better off in Scotland.

00:48That's the key and that's why we're doing so well.

00:50That's why we're going up in the polls.

00:52That's why we've got almost as many members as the Labour Party.

00:55And that's a great thing.

00:56Names and councils. Where are they from?

00:58Who's next?