20-year-old Mhairi Black Britain’s youngest MP in 350 years

Mangalore Today News Network

London, May 8, 2015: A 20-year-old student has become Britain’s youngest lawmaker in centuries, defeating one of the country’s most senior politicians to do it.

Mhairi Black of the Scottish National Party defeated Labour’s Douglas Alexander in the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South. Alexander, 47, was the opposition Labour’s foreign policy spokesman.

She is the country’s youngest lawmaker since Christopher Monck, who entered Parliament in 1667 at age 13.

Black is part of an SNP tide that is sweeping Scotland. The party, which supports independence for Scotland, had only six seats before Thursday’s election. It is now forecast to take almost all of Scotland’s 59 seats, most of them from Labour.

 

Courtesy: Indiatoday