Mhairi Black, the youngest MP elected to parliament in centuries, finds it ‘depressing’. If you would like to become a politician share your thoughts with us

Very little gets done in Westminster, according to the youngest MP elected to parliament in more than 350 years.

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Mhairi Black 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. “It is depressing. It is the personal elements – it is a pain to come up and down every week and you are working with a number of people you find quite troubling.

“Professionally, it is more just that so little gets done. It is so old and defunct in terms of its systems and procedures – a lot of the time, it is just a waste of time.”

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 may quit after one term as MP.



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