THE SNP’s newest MP has suggested Westminster should be relegated to the status of a museum and a more modest parliament built elsewhere to, “spread the power and jobs."

David Linden said he was determined to “move some of the furniture about a wee bit” after becoming MP for Glasgow East following Theresa May’s snap election in 2017.

He argued the Palace of Westminster’s refurbishment offers a chance to move out of the “Westminster bubble”, with the current site turned into a museum.

The MP also voiced his frustration at the late sitting hours of the Commons, the knock on impact on staff.

The 27-year-old said: “I’ve never been in an institution where it is commonplace for folk to drink very late into the evening and hurl abuse at each other in a debating environment.”

“I think you either settle into this place and just become part of the furniture or you try and move some of the furniture about a wee bit and I would prefer to do the latter.

“I would be quite happy for the place to be turned into a museum, I’d be quite happy for us to spend a lot less on building a modest new parliament somewhere in the Midlands.

“You can’t have absolutely everything just concentrated in this small corner of the UK. If you’re truly going to be a kingdom of equals then start spreading some of the jobs and power about a wee bit.”

Mr Linden left school at 16 and did not go to university, later becoming a research assistant for fellow SNP MP Alison Thewliss.

Mr Linden said he viewed his MP’s role as an opportunity to “stand up for folk, to be their voice” and he was undeterred about “unashamedly” raising constituency cases in the Commons.

But he was candid about finding his constituency work “emotionally quite draining” and the impact of working an average 75-80 hours per week on his family and young son who are based 300 miles away in Scotland.

He said: “I don’t have any hesitation in saying that I broke down a bit (at one point last year) because my wife texted me to say that my son ran through to the bedroom on Thursday morning expecting that I would be in the bed because I got home on Wednesday night, I wasn’t there and he started crying, saying where’s daddy.”