The former leader of the Scottish Conservatives visited Turriff yesterday to urge voters to the polls.
Baroness Annabel Goldie, who led the party at Holyrood from 2005 to 2011, met with Banff and Buchan candidate David Duguid in the town centre as the general election campaign resumed.
All parties had stopped campaigning to pay tribute to the victims of Monday’s bombing in Manchester.
Miss Goldie, who became a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013, relaunched the campaign by appealing to farmers.
The former solicitor and MSP said that Mr Duguid, who grew up on a farm on the banks of the River Deveron, was best placed to stand up for the rural economy in the north-east.
She added: “Farmers in the north-east need a strong voice as the UK approaches negotiations to leave the EU.
“David Duguid is the only candidate in this area that could actually exert some influence at the heart of government. The SNP, with its damaging independence agenda, can only shout from the sidelines in opposition.”
Mr Duguid, who now lives in Turriff with his wife and children, said: “I am determined that I will work as hard as I can to make sure the voice of farmers in this area is heard loud and clear at Westminster as we approach the Brexit negotiations.”