Mhairi Black, The 20-Year-Old Who Is Britain's Youngest MP Since 1667

 

A 20-year-old SNP student has booted out Labour heavyweight Douglas Alexander in one of the biggest coups by the Scottish nationalists.

 

Mhairi Black overturned the shadow foreign secretary’s huge 16,000 majority to win by a comfortable margin of 5,684 votes in the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat. She is set to be the youngest MP in Parliament and the youngest since the 19th century.

 

In an interview with her first published on 24^th April 2015, Mhairi Black with a smile, a chuckle and a little bit of youthful earnestness, the SNP candidate for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, sought to persuade the wavering voter.

 

“This is a real chance,” she said. “Things like this don’t come along very often.”  That is true Ms. Black.  They certainly do not.

 

If elected, the 20-year-old will become the youngest MP since 1667, when Christopher Monck, aged 13 and a half, became knight of the Shire for Devon. She will go to London to be enrolled in her first graduate job – member of Parliament – and a couple of weeks later return to take her final Glasgow University exam, on Scottish politics.