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The frontrunner for the job is believed to be Lord Offord, the peer and former Tory Scotland Office minister who defected to the Reform last month.

In an interview earlier this month, he said he was “in it to win it” and hoped to become First Minister one day.

He also said there were other figures in contention, but refused to say who when pressed, adding that there were some who were “not known to the public”.

Other potential names are: Graham Simpson, the party’s only current MSP; or Thomas Kerr, a high-profile Glasgow councillor who has been a key spokesman for the party north of the border. Both of them switched from the Conservatives.