SCOTTISH Greens said today that they are “confident” in beating Labour and the Tories in May as the party launched an attack on the “betrayals” of PM Sir Keir Starmer.

Party co-leader Ross Greer said the Greens would outperform them in the Holyrood elections this spring, but accepted a rise in support for Reform UK in Scotland was a “concern.”

“People across the country are really angry right now, and they’re right to be angry,” he told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland.

“It’s far too expensive, energy bills have gone up, the cost of the weekly shop has gone up, rent has gone up. Reform, a party led by the multimillionaires causing these problems isn’t going to do it.”

He said: “The last Ipsos poll had the Greens and Reform tied on 17 per cent and Labour on 18 per cent, so that’s a statistical tie between all three of us and in fact, the Scottish Greens are confident we are on track to beat both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Conservatives in May.

“In the next 118 days, we are confident that we are going to make substantial gains for the Greens and we are going to overtake those two Establishment parties.”

When asked who else he would be willing to work with in power-sharing scenario in Holyrood, he said he could not imagine working with Labour after a series of “betrayals.”

He said: “The first thing they did when they came in was betray their promise to the Waspi women who deserved compensation, they attack pensioners with a cut to the winter fuel payment, they attack disabled people with attempts to cut their benefits.

“But most importantly, the Labour Party has just armed and supported Israel as it inflicted a genocide on the Palestinian people.”