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MPs person voted to suspend Margaret Ferrier from the Commons for 30 days for breaching Covid lockdown rules.
The determination volition astir surely pb to a by-election successful her Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency.
Ferrier won the spot for the SNP with a bulk of 5,230 successful the 2019 predetermination but has been sitting arsenic an autarkic since losing the enactment whip.
It would beryllium an aboriginal electoral trial for caller SNP person Humza Yousaf, with Labour hopeful of winning the seat.
Ferrier has already been ordered to implicit a 270-hour assemblage payback bid by a tribunal aft admitting culpably and recklessly exposing the nationalist "to the hazard of infection, unwellness and death".
She spoke successful parliament portion awaiting the results of a Covid trial during lockdown successful September 2020, past took a bid location to Glasgow to debar self-isolating successful a London edifice aft learning she had tested positive.
She has antecedently said she "deeply regretted" her actions but has truthful acold refused to resign arsenic an MP contempt facing repeated calls to bash truthful from galore of her erstwhile SNP colleagues.
The ballot to suspend her from parliament for 30 days means a callback petition tin present beryllium started.
More than 10% of registered voters successful the constituency volition request to motion the petition for a by-election to beryllium held.
Opinion polls person suggested that enactment for the SNP has fallen successful caller months against a backdrop of Nicola Sturgeon resigning arsenic archetypal curate and enactment leader, and the ongoing constabulary probe into the party's finances.
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