Pressure is continuing to mount on Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross as allegations that he used Westminster travel expenses to fund his job as a linesman surface.
A report in the Sunday Mail claims that Mr Ross's advisors raised alarm bells about 28 parliamentary travel claims which may have been combined with his work as an MP.
It's believed that details of the trips have been shared with the newspaper by a party insider who is unhappy with how the party leader has treated outgoing MP David Duguid.
Mr Ross is now the Tory candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, replacing Mr Duguid on health grounds at the eleventh hour, despite the incumbent saying he was well enough to stand after overcoming a serious illness.
A party source said: "The latest antics from Douglas are a disgrace and he should be ashamed of himself.
"He has always wanted to stay at Westminster and he’s completely screwed over a hard-working colleague to get there. Many of us are disgusted with it."
It's reported that Mr Ross expensed a £58 parking charge at Inverness Airport when the Commons was in recess in 2018.
A £43 rail fare was also expensed from Heathrow to central London that day after he ran the line at a match in Iceland.
It's also alleged that, on November 1, 2020, he claimed £48.99 for parking on the same day he officiated a Celtic game.
Mr Ross refuted the claims. He said: "I have only ever claimed expenses related to my role as a member of parliament and the costs of getting me to and from Westminster.
"These have all been agreed by IPSA, the independent body that oversees MPs’ expenses, but I would have no issue with them being scrutinised again."
However, First Minister John Swinney said he has "significant concerns" about the allegations.
“The report in the Sunday Mail about Douglas Ross allegedly using public funds to support his career as a football linesman raises very significant issues and I think Douglas Ross has got to set out all of the information about this particular issue," he said.
“I’m not going to jump to conclusions about people. I don’t know the details about this, but [this] raises very, very significant concerns.
“Douglas Ross is normally the first to be out of the stables demanding that everybody sets out all of the information, so I think Mr Ross should do that right away because the story raises very significant and serious issues of the potential misuse of public funds.”