A former SNP politician has been stripped of her seat in the House of Commons over a breach of Covid lockdown rules.
Margaret Ferrier will have to stand in a new by-election if she wants to retake the seat, after her constituents voted to “recall” her.
10 per cent of the residents of Rutherglen and Hamilton West had to back a by-election to trigger a vote.
The SNP had urged her to quit as an MP after she travelled from London to Scotland despite testing positive for coronavirus.
Her decision to twice travel between London and Glasgow by train with coronavirus symptoms in September 2020 was denounced as “reckless and dangerous”.
She also went on to speak in the Commons, while awaiting the outcome of a Covid test.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said: “Margaret Ferrier’s constituents have delivered a very clear verdict on her reckless and selfish actions at the height of the pandemic.
“Of course, this by-election would have happened a lot sooner if she had done the right thing and resigned as an MP straight away. Instead, she brazenly stuck it out to the bitter end, which was a total insult to her constituents who made huge sacrifices during Covid.”
Following a lengthy probe into her actions, she was suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days in June.
The vote will be Scotland’s first recall by-election. A total of 11,896 voters in Ms Ferrier’s constituency signed the petition, triggering a fresh contest.