The former leader of the Scottish Tories sparked fury today after chairing a Holyrood committee while 4,000 miles away in the Caribbean.
Douglas Ross acted as convener of the education committee via video-link from an official visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The meeting room in Edinbugh was packed with MSPs ready to question SNP education secretary Jenny Gilruth, children's minister Natalie Don-Innes, and higher and further education minister Graeme Dey.
He got up at 4am local time to chair the 9am BST meeting, but refused to hand over control to deputy convener Jackie Dunbar - who was in the committee room - because there was nothing in the rules to say he could not chair from abroad.
But it comes months after the Scottish Tories criticised SNP MSP Evelyn Tweed for voting at a committee via videolink from the Cayman Islands.
