Glasgow West MP Patricia Ferguson has been elected as the chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee.
She beat Livingston MP Gregor Poynton by two votes.The Scottish Affairs Committee had been chaired by the SNP's Pete Wishart since 2015, but the Nationalists lost their right to chair the committee after only returning nine MPs at the general election .
Ferguson said: said: “I’m delighted to be elected chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee. This Committee is pivotal in the relationship between Westminster and Holyrood, and I will ensure that it gives a voice to people across Scotland. She continued: "When I was a minister, the attitude we took to the committees was that actually you wanted the committees to be asking you searching questions, because often you learned something that maybe hadn't become clear through all the policy briefings and all the discussions that you'd had.
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