Well, well, well. After almost three years of Margaret Ferrier’s Covid breaches coming under the spotlight, the SNP MP has finally been ousted from her seat in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. In the end, 11,896 people in her constituency – 14.7 per cent of eligible voters – physically signed the recall petition to eject her, a little over the 10 per cent needed. As if things couldn’t get much worse for Humza Yousaf, the First Minister now has his first big electoral test on his hands in the form of a by-election…
If readers need reminding, Ferrier is the hapless halfwit who became the focus of public uproar in October 2020 after she revealed she had not only travelled to London while waiting for a Covid test result, but visited shops, spoke in parliament and then travelled right back up to Glasgow again — by which time she knew she had tested positive.
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