The current SNP leader said the 21-year-old Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP is "incredibly talented" and could lead the party "without a shadow of a doubt", in a video interview with Elle magazine.
Ms Black pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the general election when she unseated Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander, reports our sister title the Evening Times Her maiden Commons speech has been watched by more than half a million people on YouTube.
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