My name is Dillan Hill, I moved to the highlands from Devon in 1994.

Full statement

I grew up locally in Ross-shire and then Inverness where I currently still live close to the centre of the city.

I co-own and run a small forestry company that primarily plants trees both native and commercial across the Highlands and Aberdeenshire. I studied forest management at UHI in Balloch, Inverness.

Why am I standing as the Reform Parliamentary Candidate for Inverness Skye and West Ross-shire

I became interested in politics through frustration with our government’s choice to run the country in the interests of the few rather than the majority.

Reform UK Scotland was the only party that spoke plain truths and the only one bold enough to demand real reforms that regular people wanted.

I decided to get involved recently after the SNP created their new hate speech law which I believe is a move towards tyranny and thought policing. Without the ability to think and speak there can be no democracy. Behind the smokescreen of reducing hate all critically thinking and well-meaning members of our democracy are subject to lawfare. This law itself is an act of hate and shows how much contempt the SNP has for its own voters.

A second issue close to heart is the raising and use of taxes. Taxes are too high and are then squandered. I am in support of reforming the tax system to help small businesses avoid red tape and to increase tax thresholds along with making government spending much more efficient by reducing unnecessary and over spending.

These reforms among the many proposed, will make Britain more Democratic, Free and Prosperous.