The Scottish National Party’s Mhairi Black is the Baby of the House in the UK parliament and at 20 years of age is the youngest MP in the House of Commons since 1832.

EVEN if you allow for the vanity that sometimes convinces us that this fleeting moment is the most historically significant, it is still very difficult to imagine that there has been, in the history of this State, a British general election result with the potential to have a greater impact on this island than the Conservatives’ resounding and totally unexpected victory yesterday.