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Margaret Ferrier speaking in the UK House of Commons. Reuters/Parliamentlive.tv
A lawmaker from the Scottish National Party (SNP) is facing growing calls to resign from the UK Parliament after travelling home by train from London to Scotland despite having received a positive test result for COVID-19.
Margaret Ferrier, the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, was told her test was positive on Monday after she had spoken in Britain's parliament at Westminster.,
"On Monday evening I received a positive test result for COVID-19. I travelled home by train on Tuesday morning without seeking advice. This was ... wrong and I am sorry," she said in a statement.
The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said on Twitter he was suspending her from the party. On Friday morning he called on her to consider her position.
It is mandatory in England for people to self-isolate if they test positive for the coronavirus, with fines of 1,000 pounds ($1,300) for those who breach the rules.
Margaret Ferrier said she had notified the House of Commons authorities and the police.
The opposition Labour party's Scotland spokesman had earlier said the SNP should condemn Ferrier and discipline her.
"It can't be one rule for Margaret Ferrier, and one rule for everyone else," Ian Murray said on Twitter.
Breaches of virus-prevention rules by policy-makers are eagerly seized upon by Britain's newspapers.
In May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's most senior adviser Dominic Cummings refused to quit after it emerged he had driven 250 miles (402 km) from London to northern England when all but essential travel was forbidden.
Source(s): Reuters
