Potential by-election as Margaret Ferrier MP suspended

A contest in Rutherglen and Hamilton West would prove an early test for the new First Minister

The former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier, who admitted breaking Covid rules by taking trains between Scotland and London while infected, could now face losing her seat in a by-election.

A Westminster standards watchdog has recommended she is suspended from the Commons for thirty days.

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