Mhairi Black blasts Sturgeon over careerist jibe

It’s a day ending in ‘y’, which means the Scottish Nats are arguing amongst themselves again. Ex-SNP MP Mhairi Black has taken a pop at the party’s former Dear Leader Nicola Sturgeon in a new BBC documentary released this week about her time in politics. In the programme – in which Black blasts Westminster culture and laments the toll it took on her mental health – the outspoken nationalist took a pop at Sturgeon over the SNP’s careerist culture.

In the Beeb’s new show, one of Black’s friends read out an article about the former first minister’s comments that there were too many careerists in the Scottish National party. Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in Sussex last summer, the ex-party leader had claimed that young people were entering politics ‘for all the wrong reasons’ – ruffling feathers among her former colleagues by remarking that: ‘Politics, including in my own party now, is probably too full of young people who have just come through the political ranks.’