Reform UK's Holyrood campaign has been thrown into further turmoil after two more candidates quit after its leader "went into hiding".
Linda Holt and Ronald Jackson, who were announced just a week ago as candidates for Fife North East and Glenrothes & Mid Fife, both withdrew on Thursday.
This takes the total number of prospective MSPs to quit since last week's launch event to four.
One candidate was removed following allegations of financial irregularities, while another withdrew after saying they had been announced in a mix-up.
Meanwhile, Reform's Scottish leader Malcolm Offord pulled out of scheduled broadcast interviews on the opening day of the Holyrood campaign.
He is facing mounting pressure to resign after a racist and homophobic joke he made at a rugby club dinner in 2018 surfaced.
Offord apologised at the time and donated to an LGBT charity but opponents have questioned his suitability for political office.
Rachael Hamilton, the deputy leader of the Scottish Tories, said: “Having announced pro-independence candidates, seen four of his candidates already quit and his tax plans exposed as fiction, it seems that Lord Offord has now gone into hiding.”