A Conservative MSP has been sworn in at the Scottish Parliament after a Rangers-mad member stepped down to take up a new role working in climate change.
Roz McCall, a former Perth and Kinross councillor, became the first parliamentarian to take an oath to King Charles III.
McCall replaces Dean Lockhart in the Mid Scotland and Fife region after he resigned from Holyrood to take up a new job in net zero.
Lockhart was the convener of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport committee and was the Mid Scotland and Fife MSP for six years.
He was criticised by opposition MSPs earlier this year after he travelled to Seville to watch Rangers take on Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League final in May while parliament was sitting.
Deputy John Swinney took aim at Lockhart and his fellow Tory Murdo Fraser at the time who were snapped ahead of the final where the Gers lost on penalties to the Bundesliga side.
He said: "Unlike some Tory MSPs you won't find me skiving off to the football for a few days while the parliament is sitting."
Lockhart also ran twice for the Stirling Holyrood seat at Scottish Parliament elections in 2016 and 2021, coming second on both occasions.
As part of being sworn in, new MSPs must make an oath or affirmation pledging allegiance to the current monarch. Earlier this month, McCall said she was "delighted and honoured" to be joining the Scottish Conservative group at Holyrood.
She said: "As an MSP I will work to reverse the erosion of local democracy, to hold the SNP Government to account, and to provide alternative, new and imaginative, positive policies to benefit the people of Mid Scotland and Fife, and Scotland as a whole."
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