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Ian Davidson, the veteran Labour MP from Glasgow, is expected to contest one of the Conservative’s top target seats in the next general election.

Davidson said he had thrown his hat in the ring to stand for Scottish Labour in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk - a former Lib Dem seat won by the Scottish National party’s Calum Kerr.

Kerr is defending the smallest Westminster majority in Scotland - of just 328 votes over the Tories, making it the Conservatives top target seat north of the border. The SNP will be concerned Davidson could split the anti-Tory vote in the area.

Scottish Labour’s executive is meeting later today to discuss its candidates: with only one sitting MP it must find 58 people to contest every Scottish seat.

After several decades as a Glasgow MP, Davidson said he was born in the Borders - he said he was keen to “defeat other candidates who don’t have the best interests of the people at heart. Labour’s policy of a £10 minimum wage would make an enormous financial difference in the area.”