A former Labour Cabinet minister in Tony Blair's Government is seeking to make a comeback at Westminster - almost 8 years after losing his seat.
Douglas Alexander, who also served in Gordon Brown's Cabinet, left Parliament in 2015 after losing his Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat to the SNP's Mhiari Black.
He was among 40 Labour MPs to lose their seats as the pro-independence party made massive gains in Scotland at the general election.
