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The SNP’s Westminster leader has told one of his own MPs to stand down, urging her “to do the honourable thing” as calls for her resignation increase. Ian Blackford has called for Margaret Ferrier to resign her seat after it emerged she travelled between Glasgow and London with coronavirus. Ferrier said in a statement on Thursday […]

Boris Johnson has joined the row over an SNP MP who made a “monumental” error of judgment by taking a train from London to Scotland when she knew she had tested positive for coronavirus. The prime minister was asked about Margaret Ferrier on BBC Scotland when he replied that it was vital that “everyone obeys the rules […]

Robert Jenrick has been accused of having “double standards” after his criticisms of opposition MPs breaking Covid regulations was not extended to the prime minister’s top adviser, Dominic Cummings. SNP MP Margaret Ferrier broke self-isolation guidelines when she travelled from her Glaswegian seat of Rutherglen and Hamilton West to Westminster while waiting for the results of a coronavirus test. Upon […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has compared the SNP to Oliver Twist in his latest swipe against the party’s calls for Scottish independence. Rees-Mogg said Nicola Sturgeon’s party was “modelling themselves on Oliver Twist”. Speaking in the Commons, the House leader took umbrage at comments by the SNP’s Tommy Sheppard that devolved administration would never back the government’s internal […]

The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford has told Boris Johnson to stop “yapping, bumbling, mumbling” to avoid giving answers at Prime Minister’s Questions. Blackford asked the prime minister about the Internal Market Bill, which could override the Brexit deal that had been agreed earlier this year. “Why does he think the people of Scotland have […]