Eleanor Thomson McLaughlin (born 3 March 1938)[1] is a Scottish politician, and a former member of the Labour party.
[2] McLaughlin refused to pay her Community Charge and was threatened with a warrant sale on her home.
She was also the first female Lord Provost and the first Roman Catholic to hold the post since the Reformation.
McLaughlin was against devolution, feeling that without "proper tax raising powers" government could not work.
[2] She changed her mind, and said in 2014 that devolution had worked, and that the next step was independence.