MP Margaret Ferrier’s appeal urging voters not to trigger a by-election has been branded a “desperate plea”, as efforts to oust the Covid rule breaker from the House of Commons began.
From 9am on Tuesday, voters across her Rutherglen and Hamilton West consistency have six weeks to sign a petition to recall their MP from Westminster. If 10% of the electorate choose to do so – some 8,113 people out of 81,124 – a by-election will be triggered.
