Margaret Ferrier: Covid train trip MP loses appeal over Commons ban

MP Margaret Ferrier has mislaid her entreaty against a projected 30-day prohibition from the House of Commons implicit breaching Covid rules.

It comes aft Ms Ferrier spoke successful Parliament portion awaiting the results of a Covid trial successful September 2020.

The Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP past took a bid location to Glasgow aft learning she had tested positive.

She was elected arsenic an SNP MP but mislaid the whip pursuing her actions and present sits arsenic an independent.

Her suspension would apt pb to a by-election.

The Commons' Standards Committee recommended successful March that she should beryllium suspended.

In August past twelvemonth Ferrier was sentenced to 270 hours assemblage work astatine Glasgow Sheriff Court aft pleading blameworthy to a complaint of culpable and reckless conduct.

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