The former Conservative business and Scotland Office Minister, Lord Malcolm Offord, has defected to Reform UK.
He was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a rally at Callendar House Hotel in Falkirk on Saturday.
Lord Offord was the serving Treasurer of the Scottish Conservatives and frontbencher for the Conservatives in the House of Lords.
He told the rally he planned to stand as a candidate for Reform in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
