MPs vote to ban Margaret Ferrier from Commons for 30 days
Ferrier faces being removed as an MP if enough of her constituents sign a recall petition
It would be an early electoral test for new SNP leader Humza Yousaf, with Labour hopeful of winning the seat. She spoke in parliament while awaiting the results of a Covid test during lockdown in September 2020, then took a train home to Glasgow to avoid self-isolating in a London hotel after learning she had tested positive.Ferrier has previously said she "deeply regretted" her actions but has so far refused to resign as an MP despite facing repeated calls to do so from many of her former SNP colleagues.
Scottish Conservative MSP Graham Simpson repeated the party's calls for Ferrier to stand down immediately, but said it "looks as though she will brazenly continue taking her MP salary until the bitter end".Of the 40 MPs who voted against the motion and opposed Margaret Ferrier's suspension, 32 were Conservatives, two were DUP, two were Alba - Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill - and one was Reclaim.
At one point, Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski was seen walking to the opposition benches to shake her hand.The Commons' standards committee recommended in March that Ferrier should be suspended, with a independent expert panel later upholding the original judgement after she appealed against it. Ferrier took a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 because she had a "tickly throat". While awaiting the result she went to church on the Sunday and gave a reading to the congregation, and later spent more than two hours in a bar in Ayrshire.
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