GeneralElection2017 Constituency profiles KIRKCALDY AND COWDENBEATH

It was one of the biggest shocks in a night of jaw-dropping electoral results.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, the constituency vacated by the former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had fallen to the SNP.

The seat had not just changed colour from red to yellow on the map, although that was enough to send shockwaves through the UK political world, it had done so with a swing that made BBC election night technology malfunction live on air.

As such, having secured more than 21,000 more votes than SNP challenger Douglas Chapman did five years ago, Roger Mullin found himself heading for the Houses of Parliament at the fourth time of asking.

Chapman, meanwhile, tasted victory in Dunfermline and West Fife.

Mullin was appointed his party’s Treasury spokesman and quickly carved out a niche for himself taking on tax evasion.

He also became the first MP to visit war-torn Mosul, in northern Iraq.

All well and good, but will his truncated first term also be his final fling in the Commons?

The seat is one of the few Labour has publicly talked about winning and the party has selected its formidable deputy leader in Fife, Lesley Laird, to try to win it back.

It would be an upset, however, if Mullin proved to be just a one-hit wonder. David Coburn is a businessman and art dealer, and currently the leader of Ukip Scotland.

He was elected in 2014 as a Member of the European Parliament.

He has spent 30 years fighting for Brexit and believes Scotland is better off outside the European Union and within the United Kingdom.

It is his conviction that Brexit gives the UK the opportunity to make its own beneficial trade deals and take back control of its fishing grounds, which will boost the economy and help create Scottish jobs.