'I'm tired of toxic Westminster' - SNP deputy to stand down at next election
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerMhairi Black was interviewed on Sky News the night she won her seat, aged just 20, and pledged to"end the austerity agenda".
"It's a toxic environment. It is just the entire design of the place and how it functions is just the opposite of everything I find comfortable." "Of course, I work very closely with colleagues, but I suppose I'm talking more about how it is difficult to know if somebody, certainly from other parties, is talking to you because there is a genuine relationship there or whether they are looking for opportunities."
"In the run-up to the next election, I've realised that'll be almost 10 years that I will have been elected, so a third of my life has been in Westminster, which gives me the ick," she said."I can understand why people get absorbed into the world of Westminster," she said."How folks can spend 40 years working there because it is a world unto itself, it's got it's own culture and sort of history and everything.
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