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Natalie Mcgarry was riding on the crest of a wave when she was elected as an SNP MP for Glasgow East in May 2015.

In a landslide general election for the SNP in Westminster, she was one of 56 Nationalist candidates to take their seats in the House of Commons.

Ms Mcgarry, now 37, won her seat from former Labour MP Margaret Curran. But Ms Mcgarry’s affiliation to the SNP was short lived, however.

In November 2015, following initial allegations of financial misconduct, she withdrew from the SNP party whip.

In 2016, she hit the headlines again after being detained in Turkey for taking out her mobile phone near a security checkpoint, apparently to record the sound of bombs falling in neighbouring Syria.

And she was forced to pay out £10,000 in damages to Alastair Cameron, the director of campaign group Scotland in Union, after falsely accusing him of being a “holocaust denier” on social media.

Ms Mcgarry married Tory councillor David Meikle in 2016, attracting attention when she voted in the chamber in her wedding dress, having had her union blessed in the Parliament’s chapel.

Brought up in Inverkeithing, Fife, her mother, Alice Mcgarry, was the SNP candidate for Dunfermline East in 1987 and has been a SNP representative on Fife Council since 1986. Her aunt is Tricia Marwick, the former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament.