Five of the worst Mhairi Black moments

Another one bites the dust. Mhairi Black today becomes the sixth SNP MP to announce she is standing down at the next election. It’s a rather big deal given Black is the Westminster group’s deputy leader. She famously pushed Labour’s Douglas Alexander out of his seat at only 20 years of age, with her entry to parliament symbolising the party’s landslide victory in 2015. 

Black follows in the footsteps of former Westminster group leader Ian Blackford, onetime party treasurer Douglas Chapman, Peter Grant, Angela Crawley and Stewart Hosie in quitting the Commons. Currently Mr S calculates that 13 per cent of the SNP group will not be standing as MPs in 2024. The party appears to be afflicted by an ever-growing exodus; we can only wonder why… 

Black’s statement today paints a picture of a woman keen to avoid the ‘toxic’ Westminster culture and instead settle down into ‘married life’. But the youngest MP for over 350 years managed to cause quite a stir during her time in the Commons, so let us not forget some of her high points in office:

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