Shamed MP Margaret Ferrier has spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on eye- wateringly expensive flights to London in just six months. She took 15 trips costing from £450 to £533 a time between June 2021 and January 2022, totalling £7074.22, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
Ferrier, who is on an £81,932 salary, lost the SNP whip and received a criminal conviction after travelling to parliament by train while infected with Covid at the height of the pandemic. Since then, she has been flying on executive BA services from Glasgow directly into London City airport – all paid for by taxpayers.
On most weeks, an easyJet flight between the two cities can be booked in advance for between £50 and £100, and train tickets are available for about £160. Among Ferrier’s £533 trips was one claim made on November 1 – when child poverty and stretched public spending budgets was discussed in the Commons chamber.
