PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Labour MP Tom Harris has emerged as a potential candidate for the role of party leader at Holyrood.
The Glasgow South politician said he would be interested in competing for the job "if the party would be interested in having me".
Mr Harris told BBC Radio Scotland that he had put his name forward because of the lack of candidates to emerge from Labour's ranks at the Scottish Parliament.
He said: "The reason I have allowed my name to be mentioned in the speculation about this is purely and simply because we lost in May, Iain Gray announced he was standing down in September, which is next week, and I don't even know if that's going ahead."
Referring to MSP Ken MacIntosh, who had been named as a possibility for the role, he said: "One of the candidates that has been touted has apparently said privately that he is no longer interested. None of the other candidates that have been mooted have put their heads above the parapet.
"I think this amount of time after the election when we did so badly, it is truly bizarre and very damaging to the party not having a leadership campaign."
Mr Harris added: "I am raising the possibility - the very slim possibility of my candidacy - because there are ideas that I have that I think the party should at least be debating, because by the time the next Scottish Parliament elections come up in 2016, we need to know what type of party Scottish Labour will be."
Mr Harris said a Scottish Labour leader from Westminster would not be any different from Alex Salmond leading the SNP as an MP for two years, prior to his return to Holyrood.
A review of Scottish Labour is already under way following the party's election defeat in May. The party said it would be gathering opinions throughout the summer as well as holding a series of regional events for its members to establish what lessons needed to be learned.
Labour's deputy leader Johann Lamont had been widely touted as the favourite to succeed Mr Gray when he steps down.