The maiden speech by the youngest MP in the House of Commons, the SNP’s Mhairi Black, has reached more than 6.5million views.
The new MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire made her first speech yesterday, and the video has subsequently went viral.
She used her speech to launch a blistering attack on the Conservative Government, while also slamming the Labour Party’s current policies.
Addressing the Chancellor George Osborne’s recent budget, she said: ”
“In this Budget the chancellor also abolished any housing benefit for anyone below the age of 21, so we are now in the ridiculous situation whereby because I am an MP, not only am I the youngest, but I am now also the only 20 year old in the whole of the UK that the chancellor is prepared to help with housing.”
And of the Labour Party, she said her comments were intended to “hold a mirror to the face of a party that seems to have forgotten the very people they are supposed to represent”.