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Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said he will resign after the general election.

It follows a row over Ross standing as a candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East instead of David Duguid, who has been in hospital and was in effect de-selected.

Douglas Ross has led the Scottish Tories since August 2020 following the surprise resignation of Jackson Carlaw.

He was an MP at Westminster at the time but not an MSP, so for the first nine months of his leadership Ruth Davidson led the party in the Scottish Parliament.

Ross, who is still only 41, was born in Aberdeen and attended Forres Academy before going to the Scottish Agricultural College.

Before his move into politics, he worked as a dairyman at local farms.

He was first elected to Moray Council in 2007, at the age of 24, and became part of the Independent/Conservative administration.

He stood unsuccessfully for the Moray seat at the general elections in 2010 and 2015 but he was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional list MSP in 2016.

However, he stood down from Holyrood the following year when he was finally elected to the House of Commons, unseating SNP stalwart Angus Robertson who had held the seat for 16 years.

He returned to Holyrood when he became a list MSP for the Highlands and Islands in 2021.

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You can find a full list of the candidates standing in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East here.