After housing benefit for under-21s abolished in budget,fresh MP says she is now only 20-year-old whom chancellor is helping with housingMhairi Black, the youngest person to be elected to parliament since at least the 19th century, or used a barnstorming first speech in the House of Commons to mount a withering attack on the chancellor for cutting housing benefit to young people and to call for Labour to join the Scottish National party in mounting an effective opposition to the Tories.
To laughter in the Commons,Black declared that she was the only 20-year-old in the country whom George Osborne was helping with her housing bill.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com