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public and to colleagues and staff at the House of Commons. She acted selfishly, putting her own interests above the public interest." The House of Commons voted to suspend Ferrier for 30 days, which led to a recall petition in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. The result of the petition was declared on 1 August; almost 15 per cent of eligible constituents had signed, unseating Ferrier and triggering
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that a family member was unwell. Following her public statement, Ferrier was suspended from the SNP, and had the party whip withdrawn, meaning she no longer represented the SNP in Parliament but retained her seat as an independent MP. She referred herself to the police and the parliamentary standards
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recommended that she be suspended from Parliament for 30 days. She lost her subsequent appeal on the recommendation, which was upheld on 22 May 2023 with the independent panel finding that she "acted with blatant and deliberate dishonest intent. She acted with a high degree of recklessness to the
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and took a test. She visited a gym, a beauty salon and a gift shop on the same day, and gave a reading at a church service on 27 September. Ferrier took a train from Scotland to London on 28 September and spoke in a debate in the
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In October 2020, Ferrier's Rutherglen constituency association announced that they had asked her to resign her seat over the scandal, which she refused. In the same month, the
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before being found to have broken the rules herself. Ferrier said that the coronavirus made her act "out of character", an explanation that was dismissed by Sturgeon.
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said on 2 October that Ferrier had been guilty of the "worst breach imaginable". Sturgeon said she had told Ferrier that she should step down as an MP.
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that evening. She received a positive COVID-19 test result on the same day and returned to Scotland the next morning, again by train, having told her
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On 12 November 2020, Ferrier made her first appearance in the Commons since breaching COVID-19 regulations. In view of the circumstances,
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On 1 October 2020, Ferrier made a public statement apologising for serious breaches of regulations imposed during the
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Before her successful election to Westminster, Ferrier was previously a candidate for the Rutherglen South ward of
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Until 2015, she was a commercial sales supervisor for Terex Equipment, a manufacturing construction company in
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since 2000, where she joined the Rutherglen branch of the SNP in 2011 (in her youth she had been a
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had previously served a short spell as the representative of the original constituency of
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In 2020, Ferrier was suspended by the SNP and had the party whip withdrawn for breaching
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s Gary Flockhart criticised Ferrier for hypocrisy in calling for government advisor
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Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
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was opened in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, which unseated her and triggered
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from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2023. She was first elected to the
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with "culpable and reckless conduct". On 3 February 2021 she appeared at
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Ferrier was born on 10 September 1960 and brought up in the district of
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Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
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said they would be taking no further action on the matter.
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to Killen by 265 votes. She stood as a candidate in the
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On 4 January 2021, Ferrier was arrested and charged by
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travelled to County Durham during the national lockdown
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Index


Member of Parliament
Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Ged Killen
Michael Shanks
Tom Greatrex
Glasgow
Independent
Scottish National Party
Holyrood Secondary School
Member of Parliament
Rutherglen and Hamilton West
House of Commons
2015 general election
Scottish National Party
Ged Killen
Labour Party
2017 general election
2019 election
COVID-19 lockdown rules
Nicola Sturgeon
recall petition
a by-election
Recall of MPs Act 2015
King's Park
Glasgow
Holyrood Secondary School
Mallorca
Rutherglen
Darnley

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