17 Facts About Mhairi Black

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Mhairi Black is a Scottish National Party politician, serving as the party's deputy leader in the House of Commons since December 2022.

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Mhairi Black has been a Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South since 2015, when she defeated Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander.

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

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Black was the youngest member of the House from 2015 to 2019 when Labour MP Nadia Whittome was elected aged 23 at the time of the 2019 election; Black remains the SNP's youngest MP.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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".

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

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

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Mhairi Black describes herself as a "traditional socialist", citing Tony Benn as her enduring political hero - despite his opposition to Scottish independence.

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In line with prevailing political sentiment, Mhairi Black expressed her support for same-sex marriage prior to the referendum in Ireland.

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

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Mhairi Black is a supporter and season-ticket holder of Partick Thistle FC 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.