Claims that two high-profile Liberal Democrat Holyrood candidates are planning to emigrate weeks after the vote have been staunchly rejected.
It was reported that Dundee West candidate Alison Burns was to move to the United States with her husband James Taylor, who is standing in Mid Scotland and Fife.
A tabloid newspaper said Mr Taylor (33), the son of jazz guitar legend Martin Taylor, had accepted a job in California and was planning to move soon after the election.
But, speaking to The Courier on Wednesday, Mr Taylor called the claims “daft.”
“There’s no truth in that at all,” he said. “I have taken a job as director of a San Francisco technology company but my wife and I are based in Scotland.
“I have been working with this company in California, but they have staff who work in New York, in the UK and across the world.
“I have been in California recently on business, in France and other places. Today I am in Glasgow. That’s my job. I am the director of global development I develop the business in places around the world.
“For Labour to be trying to make an issue out of a daft thing like this just shows that they want to get away from the real issues.”
However, Scottish Labour’s election co-ordinator John Park insisted the couple “clearly think they won’t be elected and have made alternative plans for after the vote.”
The SNP’s Dundee West MSP Joe FitzPatrick said the election would be a “two-horse race” between his party and Labour.
Ms Burns is a successful jazz singer and solicitor.