Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Na te mea no Scotland te whanau o te papa o Mitchell i whanau mai i Merseyside, a ko tana whaea he Welsh, ko Mitchell te Pakeha, ehara i te Ingarihi. I tirotirohia e ia tana whakapapa i roto i tetahi waahanga o te whakaaturanga pouaka whakaata "Ko wai koe e whakaaro ana ko koe?", i kitea ai tana hononga ki nga kairangahau Gaelic a John Forbes me Alexander Robert Forbes. I te 7 o Akuhata 2014, ko Mitchell tetahi o nga tangata 200 o te iwi i haina ki te reta ki "The Guardian" e whakaatu ana i to raatau tumanako ka pooti a Scotland kia noho tonu hei waahanga o te United Kingdom i te pooti o Hepetema.
te pōti i runga i taua take. Ko te whai wāhi o Mitchell ki te reta tuwhera e whai ake nei i te pou o te "The Observer" o Mei 2011, i roto i tana whakatau ko "Mehemea ka haere takitahi a Scotland... ka ngaro te whenua o Ingarangi".