18 Facts About Mhairi Black

Mhairi Black was re-elected in 2017 and again in 2019.

Mhairi Black was the youngest member of the House from 2015 to 2019.

Mhairi Black stood down as an MP at the 2024 general election.

Mhairi Black became a member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South in the 2015 general election while still a final year undergraduate student at the University of Glasgow.

Mhairi Black was widely reported to be the youngest MP since Christopher Monck, Earl of Torrington, who entered the House of Commons at the age of 13 in 1667, although there have been other teenage MPs in between, such as Viscount Jocelyn, who was 18 when elected in the 1806 general election.

Since the Electoral Administration Act 2006 reduced the age of candidacy from 21 to 18 years, Mhairi Black is the first person to be elected under its provisions.

On 1 July 2015, it was announced that Mhairi Black had been appointed to the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

Mhairi Black made her maiden speech on 14 July 2015 and this included some criticism of the government's approach to unemployment in her constituency and the growing need for food banks.

Mhairi Black was later made aware of the change in the state pension through her constituents, and has since endorsed Women Against State Pension Inequality on several occasions.

In June 2016, Mhairi Black introduced a Private Members' Bill entitled Benefit Claimants Sanctions Bill.

Mhairi Black was sitting in the most Eurosceptic corner of Scotland.

In 2017, Mhairi Black considered not standing for a second term in the next general election, expressing her frustration that "so little gets done", and that "it is a pain to come up and down every week".

In January 2018, Mhairi Black was a signatory for a Safer Drugs Consumption Facility pilot scheme in Glasgow.

In March 2020, it was reported that Mhairi Black had a "blazing row" with her SNP colleague, Joanna Cherry, after the latter questioned her decision to visit a primary school with a drag queen.

On 4 July 2023, Mhairi Black announced that she would not seek re-election as an MP at the 2024 general election.

In June 2022, Mhairi Black married her partner, Katie McGarvey, at Pollokshields Burgh Hall in Glasgow.

Mhairi Black plays the guitar and piano, as was revealed in a Channel 4 News interview with Jon Snow, on 18 September 2015, during which she played the theme music from the film Titanic.

Mhairi Black was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in 2018.