JO Swinson will not be standing in next year's Holyrood elections, Willie Rennie has confirmed.

The LibDem leader said Swinson, who lost her Westminster seat to the SNP's Amy Callaghan in one of the biggest upsets of last year’s General Election, has a new job and has not applied to be a candidate.

"She's not applied, so she's not standing," Rennie said.

"I don't know if you saw, it was actually maybe a month or so ago, they announced she had a new job."

Swinson was recently unveiled as a visiting professor at Cranfield School of Management.

She won the LibDems' UK leadership race in July 2019 and claimed she had a shot at being Prime Minister.

In April, Rennie said he was trying to persuade Swinson to run for Holyrood.

He said: “I would love to see Jo come to the Scottish Parliament, I think she’s talented.

“I was keen to encourage her to stay involved and for her to consider the Scottish Parliament as one of those options."

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Rennie went on: “She’s not made her mind up about that but I think she’s talented and would be great to have. It’s too early for her to leave the political scene – I hope she does do it.”