Ruth Davidson is to sit as Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links in the House of Lords.
The former Scottish Conservative leader has chosen her childhood home in Fife as her title when she takes up her seat in the Upper House.
Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links will not be able to speak in the unelected second chamber of Westminster until she is formally sworn in.
Davidson has, however, already hit out at Boris Johnson’s cut to international aid budget, blasting the move by the Tory government as a “bloody disgrace” this week.
Davidson has categorically ruled out becoming Johnson’s Scottish Secretary in the Lords but she is expected to play a major role in opposing SNP plans for a second independence referendum.
After the birth of her her son in 2018 Davidson quit as leader of the Scottish Tories the following year over Brexit divisions with incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson and to focus on her family.
She stepped down as the MSP for Edinburgh Central in March and the seat was won by the SNP’s Angus Robertson in the following Holyrood elections.
Davidson, 42, was leader of the Scottish Tories for eight years and saw the party overtake Labour as the largest opposition party in Holyrood as well as see an increase in the number of Scottish Conservative MPs.
Her predecessor as Scottish Tory leader, Annabel Goldie, also sits in the Lords and is a a Minister of State for Defence.
