Mr John White, the associate of UDA commander Johnny Adair who fled to Scotland this week, has vowed he will return to Belfast when he feels "it is appropriate".
Mr White is one of about 25 people linked to the renegade Shankill Road leader who fled Northern Ireland on Thursday. Adair was returned to jail last month, having been held by the Northern Secretary to have broken the terms of the licence which released him from a 17-year sentence for directing terrorism.
Members of Adair's "C" Company, based on the Lower Shankill Road, were forced either to join the mainstream UDA - against which they had fought a bitter feud, costing six lives since September - or to leave the North.
The feud intensified dramatically last weekend following the murder of Mr John Gregg, the so-called brigadier of the UDA in south Antrim, and Mr Robert Carson, another senior UDA figure. Mr White, along with Mrs Gina Adair and some of her children, fled to Scotland under police protection.
However, yesterday Mr White said: "I'll be back when I consider it appropriate. I'll not be back this week, but I intend to return when I feel it is appropriate."
He said the violent spree associated with the loyalist feud would not spread to Scotland, despite fears of Scottish politicians.
Mr White said yesterday: "The feud will not spread to Scotland. The people in Scotland and the loyalists who supported the UDA over the years are appalled about what has happened."
He told Downtown Radio: "We have been inundated by loyalists coming to see us in the hotel where we are staying. They are saying it is an absolute disgrace. They are welcoming us here and said they will provide housing and whatever other needs we require. We have an awful lot of support."
However, a loyalist source told the Press Association: "The UDA is right across the UK and I cannot see this being resolved, not just yet. There are outstanding issues.
"It wouldn't matter if they went to the Mediterranean. John Gregg is lying in a coffin and that is a disgrace. We know these people have been buying homes in Scotland. Obviously this is what they had been planning for. It is part of the endgame."
He added ominously: "It's never over until it's over, there is still work to do. These people have murdered others under the guise of politics when they have no politics whatsoever. They have only got self-interest and financial gain at heart."
The Northern Secretary yesterday hoped for developments in the political leadership of the loyalist community. He commended the work of the PSNI and the Chief Constable, Mr Hugh Orde, for their handling of the feud.
Mr Paul Murphy said: "People really have to make up their minds within the loyalist community as to what they support.
"I believe the vast majority of people in those communities want political loyalism to be their badge as it were, so that continues to make its mark and have its influence in the talks process.
"But as for the sort of gangsterism we have been seeing over the last number of months, which, I believe, the Chief Constable is dealing with very effectively indeed, that sort of loyalism is loyalism masqueraded.
"Effectively it is mobsterism. It has to stop. We have to do our utmost to deal with these people as criminals but that is very, very different from the sort of loyalist politicians that I deal with in the talks process."