What I don't want is for other young women in my constituency, across Scotland, across the whole UK, to look at the experience that I've had and go, ‘well, I can't do that’, because that doesn't serve our national political conversation, and it doesn't serve our democracy.
Expressing concern about discouraging young women from politics.
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