Conspiracies? Not a word I would associate with you Omah…
An agreement between multiple individuals or organisations to carry out an unlawful task.
The intent in this case would seem to be to pervert the course of justice.
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It would be an early electoral test for new SNP leader Humza Yousaf, with Labour hopeful of winning the seat.
Ferrier has already been ordered to complete a 270-hour community payback order by a court after admitting culpably and recklessly exposing the public “to the risk of infection, illness and death”.
SNP MP David Linden said: “There must now be a by-election, which the SNP has been calling for since Ms Ferrier’s Covid rule breach first came to light in 2020.”
MPs voted by 185 to 40 in favour of suspending Ferrier from parliament for 30 days, with the suspension due to start on Wednesday.
Of the 40 MPs who voted against the motion and opposed Margaret Ferrier’s suspension, 32 were Conservatives, two were DUP, two were Alba - Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill - and one was Reclaim.
The Conservatives who backed her included former ministers David Davis and Jacob Rees-Mogg, and party grandees Sir Bill Cash and Sir Edward Leigh.
The result means a recall petition can now be started. More than 10% of registered voters in the constituency will need to sign the petition for a by-election to be held.
Opinion polls have suggested that support for the SNP has fallen in recent months against a backdrop of Nicola Sturgeon resigning as first minister and party leader, and the ongoing police investigation into the party’s finances.
Ms Ferrier was accompanied in the Commons by Conservative former minister Andrew Selous and SNP MP Carol Monaghan.
At one point, Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski was seen walking to the opposition benches to shake her hand.
Ferrier’s a gonner but, obviously, will draw her salary and expenses until the last possible moment … 
A recall petition will open in suspended MP Margaret Ferrier’s constituency later.
More than 10% of registered voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton West would need to sign the petition for Ms Ferrier to lose her seat.
A by-election would then be held in the constituency to elect a new MP. The petition will be open from 09:00 at up to 10 official signing places.
The petition will remain open for six weeks until 31 July.
Despite repeated calls to resign as an MP from many of her former SNP colleagues, she has so far refused.
If she won’t jump then she’ll have to be pushed … 
We have much bigger things to worry about than this and Johnson eating cake.
This is the state our parliament and main stream media.
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This woman is typical of the “planks” in parliament who are supposed to represent us. I alway say show me an MP who tells the truth and I will show you a lair .
The government seem to blunder from one witch hunt to another wasting time and money on trivial things and the MSM just keep wafting the flames…This country is just a joke these days.
Certainly is…
Voters will tell them how they feel very soon, don’t you worry.
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The recall petition which could lead to a by-election in MP Margaret Ferrier’s constituency has closed.
Ferrier, the former SNP member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, was suspended from the Commons for 30 days after being convicted of breaking Covid travel rules during lockdown.
A by-election will be triggered if more than 10% of voters in the constituency vote for her recall.
The votes will be counted and the result announced on Tuesday afternoon. The petition, the first in Scotland since the procedure was introduced in 2015, opened on June 20 and closes at 5pm.
A by-election has been triggered after MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the Commons for breaking Covid lockdown rules, lost her seat in a recall petition.
A total of 11,896 out of the 81,124 eligible constituents in Rutherglen and Hamilton West signed the petition.
That exceeded the 10% threshold and means a by-election will take place.
The seat becomes vacant from the moment the petition officer, who oversaw the count, informs the Speaker of the House of Commons of the result.
The date for the by-election will be set when parliament resumes in September.
How many by-elections make a spate … 
The people have spoken.
If I had been in her constituency, I would have voted to recall her too.
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Should be an interesting fight between SNP and Labour.
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