The youngest MP elected to parliament in more than 350 years has said she may not stand for a second term because she hates Westminster and so little gets done. Mhairi Black, who was 20 when she won the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South for the SNP from Labour’s Douglas Alexander in 2015, says she finds parliament “depressing” and “defunct”. She told the Sunday Post she had not got used to working in Westminster: “It has been nearly two years and I still hate the place,” she said. Now I’m an MP’ Read more“Professionally, it is more just that so little gets done. “I get on quite well with a lot of the Labour old guard and quite a few Tories actually,” she said.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2017 17:16 UTC