Mhairi Black graduates with first class degree

THE youngest elected MP for over 300 years has bagged a first class politics degree.

By The Newsroom Thursday, 25th June 2015, 5:38 pm

Mhairi Black, Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP, who has graduated with a first class politics degree. Picture: Getty

Unlike many of her graduating peers, Mhairi Black knew that she had job security after her final exams after being elected in a landslide victory in this year’s General Election.

The 20 year-old will graduate from the University of Glasgow, along with the rest of her politics class on Friday.

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Her final exam was on Scottish politics which, after campaigning extensively as a SNP candidate, the former chip shop worker knew more about than most.

She overturned a 16,000 deficit into a 5,500 vote-winning margin to unseat the Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander.

She has said that she was “really proud” to have passed her exams and to receive a first class honours degree.

The youngest MP since the 17th century had crammed in intensive reading sessions between debates in London.

A spokesman for the University of Glasgow said: “We would like to congratulate Mhairi Black, as we would all of our students who are graduating this summer.