Independent MP – formally SNP – Margaret Ferrier will stand trial in August following her infamous Covid rule breach in 2020. Despite being told to self-isolate, she travelled from London to Scotland; as well as travelling around Glasgow and to London prior to her positive Covid diagnosis, despite Covid symptoms. She denies wilfully exposing people to the risk of illness and death. Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election anyone?
Guido learns that a surprising name has joined the APPG for Cleaning and Hygiene. None other than Margaret Covid Ferrier. The news is causing virtual tea room tittering. One fellow MP tells Guido they wonder if Covid-ferrying Ferrier has a special interest in the cleanliness of trains?
Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by Police Scotland after breaching coronavirus restrictions and charged with culpable and reckless conduct over her journey between the Commons and Scotland after testing positive for Covid. Developing…
UPDATE: Police Scotland statement – “We can confirm officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct”
After threatening the health of thousands from SW1 to Rutherglen, Margaret Ferrier is set to return to her MP duties this week, according to the order paper. Defying calls from the SNP and almost everyone else to resign over her unlawful Covid-positive journey to London and back. Ferrier is poised to ask Michael Gove how he will ensure “the adequacy of fuel and electricity supplies in the event of” no deal with the EU. Some avid travellers might be understandably worried about fuel supplies…
Disgraced former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier’s interview in the Scottish Sun yesterday has raised eyebrows across the board. It provided both confirmation that the party knew of rule breaking long in advance of her statement, and that Ferrier understood the initial internal policy to be “containing” the situation and retaining her as an SNP MP. Containing only the story, not the virus…
After telling the SNP Chief Whip on the Wednesday that she had travelled to and from London on public transport with the virus, it was not until 4pm on Thursday that she took part in a conference call and was told by party bosses to phone the police in order that her statement, which was not written by her, would be truthful when it went out. Then came the bombshell line…
“They told me they would be able to contain this situation. Why suddenly have we got to the point where they have to take the whip from me? It was because the statement went out and it escalated.”
Ferrier lost the whip an hour after the statement came out, when the SNP decided that the story had escaped their control. Sturgeon’s response to this revelation was, unbelievably, that the delay was due to phone signal issues. Issues that did not materialise during the conference call confirming the original statement…
The BBC’s Nick Eardley suggests all this information bubbling up is due to yet another stage in the SNP civil war, that Ferrier only gave an interview to the Scottish Sun on the advice of Alex Salmond’s camp. Salmond’s fury with increasingly forgetful Sturgeon has risen to new heights following her ‘cover up’ allegations on Sunday. Despite U-turns and counter briefing, the SNP are on course for a majority in next year’s Holyrood elections…
Viewers watching Nicola Sturgeon’s daily Corona briefing noticed she slipped up a couple of times and accidentally rebranding her former colleague Margaret Ferrier. Margaret Covid, of course, being the 21st century’s answer to Typhoid Mary…
