Thomas Kerr

Thomas Jordan Kerr (born 1996) is a Scottish Reform UK politician. He has served as the Deputy Leader of Reform UK Scotland and been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since 2026. Kerr was elected as a councillor in 2017 as a Scottish Conservative and served as the party's group leader on Glasgow City Council from 2019 until his defection to Reform UK in 2025, becoming the party's first councillor in Glasgow.

Early life Kerr was born in 1996. His mother Debra had struggled with heroin misuse prior to his birth, and so he lived with his grandparents, Margaret and Thomas, whilst he attended primary school. After meeting his political hero, Scottish Labour MP Margaret Curran in 2008, Kerr began campaigning for his MSPs Paul Martin and Frank McAveety. This made Kerr the youngest leader of a council group in Scotland. In the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, he again failed to be elected in Glasgow Shettleston. Kerr retained his council seat in the 2022 Glasgow City Council election, one of two Scottish Conservatives out of eight to do so, and stood for the party at the 2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, where he finished a distant third. Kerr unsuccessfully contested Glasgow East for the third time in the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Kerr stated that the Conservatives were overly focused on criticising the SNP and "lacked a positive vision of centre-right conservatism".

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar claimed that Reform MSP Graham Simpson had called Kerr a "weasel". Simpson denied the claim, and insisted he had called Kerr a "lion". He unsuccessfully stood for Glasgow Baillieston and Shettleston in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election finishing second behind the SNP's David Linden, but he was elected as a list MSP. He was also elected as Reform UK Scotland's first deputy leader.

In 2026, Kerr stated that he would "really welcome" the opportunity to join the far-right vigilante group Scots Active on a street patrol.

Personal life Kerr and his former fiancée have a son. He is in a relationship with fellow Reform UK politician Aimee Alexander.