Following the election of Mhairi Black last week, many of you have asked us about young MPs! Over to our Director, Dr Paul Seaward…
Many have said that Mhairi Black’s election as the SNP Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South at the age of 20 makes her the youngest MP since the seventeenth century. It has already been pointed out (some have quoted the History of Parliament) that this is not quite true. Certainly Christopher Monck, then known as the earl of Torrington, was elected to the House of Commons in January 1667, about 7 months short of his 14th birthday. But he is the youngest MP we know about, rather than the only one under 21. In fact, it’s already been pointed out that several rather high profile MPs in the eighteenth century were elected well under the legal age of majority, at 21, including
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