SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black stepping down at the next election - with a swipe at ‘toxic environment’ of Parliament
Speaking to The News Agents podcast, the Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP said Westminster is "one of the most unhealthy workplaces that you could ever be in. It's a toxic environment".Explaining her decision to quit, she said: "Honestly, because I'm tired, is a big part of it. And the thing that makes me tired is Westminster.
"It's definitely a poisonous place. Whether that's because of what folk can get away with in it or the number of personal motivations and folk having ulterior motives for things, and it's just not a nice place to be in." "And also, given the unsociable hours that Westminster works as well, it feels like you're spending a lot of your life there. And in the run up to the next election, I've realized, that will be almost 10 years that I'll have been elected. So, a third of my life I've spent in Westminster, which gives me the ick."
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