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A friend of the disgraced Scottish MP Margaret Ferrier and senior figure in the Scottish National party claimed on Monday that she had put her party first by travelling to Westminster while suffering from Covid.The former SNP MP George Kerevan said her decision to travel back to Glasgow after testing positive was an obvious lapse of stanley cup judgment that put others in danger.But in a reflection of divisions within the party over her treatment he claimed she was a victim of a trial by media fuelled by virtue signallers in his own party.He came to her defence shortly after the leader of the party in Westminster, Ian Blackford, piled pressure on the MP to resign her Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat by saying she should do the honourable thing before being forced out.Blackford told the Daily Telegraph Ferrier should resign to save her self-respect and dignity .She has already lost the party whi stanley botella p and is subject to a police and a House of Commons investigation, but has ignored calls for her resignatio stanley travel mug n from Blackford, the party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, and others.View image in fullscreenGeorge Kerevan said: Margaret Ferrier, in my experience, always put the job before her personal convenience. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PAOne fellow SNP politician said they were astonished that she was trying to tough it out when voters were facing self-isolation, economic hardship and the loss of loved ones through Covid.But others within the party said they could not believe how the leadership was Onii Plans for Royal Mail delivery cuts could risk patient safety, NHS leaders warn
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