Former SNP Margaret Ferrier is due to face a vote in the House of Commons on whether she will be suspended this afternoon.
MPs will vote on the Commons standards committee's recommendation that Ferrier is suspended for 30 days for breaching Covid rules.
Ferrier will face a recall petition if MPs vote in favour of the suspension. If 10 per cent of her constituents sign the petition, a by-election will be called.
A decision was due to be made in the Commons on May 25 but the UK Government decided to pull the motion. A Government source said this was because there were not enough MPs in the chamber, but Labour Shadow Scotland Secretary Ian Murray accused Ferrier of colluding with allies of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to vote it down.
Johnson could face a similar vote soon as the privileges committee is deciding whether he intentionally or recklessly misled the house over Partygate.
Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Ferrier lost her appeal against the standards committee's ruling a fortnight ago. The verdict was damning, concluding: "She acted with blatant and deliberate dishonest intent. She acted with a high degree of recklessness to the public and to colleagues and staff at the House of Commons. She acted selfishly, putting her own interests above the public interest."
Ferrier lost the SNP whip and received a criminal conviction after travelling from London to Glasgow by train while infected with Covid at the height of the pandemic.
If it takes place, the recall petition will be open for six weeks. If 10 per cent or more of the constituents have signed it by the end of the period, Ferrier will be ejected from the seat and a by-election will be called. It would likely be months before the by-election takes place.
Ferrier would be allowed to stand in a by-election, but she would only do so as an independent candidate.
Labour, which recently selected teacher Michael Shanks to stand in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, believes it can take a seat they last won in 2017.
This would also be the first electoral test for Humza Yousaf since becoming SNP leader and First Minister in March. His party is yet to choose a candidate.
Having initially won the seat in the 2015 general election, Ferrier was beaten by Labour's Ged Killen in 2017. She took the seat back in 2019 with a 5,230 majority.
She was given 270 hours of community service in September 2022 after pleading guilty to breaking Covid travel rules.
Ferrier did a Covid on September 26, 2020 after showing Covid symptoms, including a cough.
While waiting for her results, she travelled in and around Glasgow as well as between Scotland and London.
Ferrier also spoke in the Houses of Parliament and visited other locations in London.
She was suspended by the SNP in October 2020. Then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for her to resign at the time, but Ferrier refused to do so.
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