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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Neil Pooran

By-election to go ahead in Margaret Ferrier’s seat as constituents recall MP

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Keir Starmer is to face another by-election test within weeks after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was stripped of her seat over a breach of Covid lockdown rules.

More than 10 per cent of her constituents in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, near Glasgow – a key Labour target seat – voted to “recall” her following her suspension from the House of Commons.

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