THE SNP's new 'Team Scotland' posse of MPs is to pose for its first official photograph this weekend, hundred of miles from Westminster.

The newly elected politicians are expected to meet up for their first official group photograph in Scotland.

The picture will be in marked contrast to a similar Scottish Labour 'Team Scotland' photograph taken four years ago. Then the group decided to pose in front of the House of Commons.

At that stage Labour said that the photograph emphasised the work that MPs were doing on behalf of their constituents in Scotland, an argument the SNP is also likely to make.

In 2011, the occasion was to mark the fact that Ed Miliband had brought a host of Scottish MPs into Labour's frontbench team to ramp up the party's campaign against independence.

The move was denounced by the SNP, which suggested that Labour should concentrate its time instead on finding a replacement for then outgoing Scottish leader Iain Gray.

Most of those who appeared in the Labour photograph lost their seats in the election.

They include former Scottish minister Cathy Jamieson , shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex, and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

Shadow business minister Ian Murray, however, held his seat in Edinburgh.

New MPs can technically go to the House of Commons from the moment that they are elected.

However, it is expected that the new SNP MPs will make their first trip to Westminster next week.