A FORMER SNP MP who was also a member of the Conservative and Labour parties is one of 32 candidates announced as part of Alex Salmond’s Alba Party slate for May’s elections. 

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who represented Ochil and South Perthshire between 2015 and 2017, is at the top of Alba’s list for the Central Scotland region in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections.

She will join sitting MPs Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey who switched their party affiliation to Alba, with a number of other SNP representatives also having joined.