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 the the Macdonald Inchyra 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.
Announcing his resignation from the Conservative party, Lord Offord said: “From today, for the next five months, day and night, I shall be campaigning with all of you tirelessly for two objectives.
“The first objective is to remove this rotten SNP government after 18 years, and the second is to present a positive vision for Scotland inside the UK, to restore Scotland to being a prosperous, proud, healthy and happy country.”
The move makes him the first Reform member of the House of Lords.
