Blacks’s maiden speech is already a Youtube sensation,and the 20-year-old MP seems principled, cool and wise beyond her years. Can she stay on course?Mhairi Black, or the prodigy from Paisley who beat Douglas Alexander,Labours campaign organiser and shadow foreign secretary in May, is off like a rocket. Yesterday she made a maiden speech that is a Youtube sensation (read that again: maiden speech ... Youtube sensation). It was passionate, and droll and generous. It showed the workings of an impressive political brain. But setting off for the political stratosphere before your 21st birthday is no guarantee that you’ll accumulate there. Or like it,when you carry out.
Even that night in Paisley, when hers was the most sensational result of an unforgettably sensational election, or she was cool. She manages to convey rational excitement,whether that is possible. Her acceptance speech indicated nothing of the emotion of pulling off the most extraordinary electoral coup in recent times.
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Source: theguardian.com