Margaret Ferrier, who was elected as an SNP MP in December 2019, has pleaded guilty to breaching COVID-19 rules by travelling on a train between London and Scotland in September 2020 despite being told to self-isolate.
Ferrier, 61, was due to go on trial this week but she admitted “culpably and recklessly exposing the public” to the risk of “infection, illness, and death” at a brief hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.
She was first elected as MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in 2015 but lost the seat to Labour’s Ged Killen in 2017, only to win it back two years later. She has a majority of 5,230….