When Boris Johnson and his Downing Street crew repeatedly broke Covid lockdown rules, there was widespread condemnation. He should have been thrown out of office without delay, but had to be dragged out kicking and screaming only after his own party turned on him.
It is obvious that lawmakers cannot also be lawbreakers – and eventually the Conservative Party realised that. Equally, there can be no further excuse for Margaret Ferrier, the one-time SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, to hang on as a Member of Parliament.
At the height of the Covid pandemic, Ferrier took it upon herself to visit venues in her constituency and travel to London and back to speak in the Commons while awaiting the result of a Covid test. Ferrier admitted her guilt in court this week and awaits sentence.
