Career
McLaughlin refused to pay her Community Charge, and was threatened with a warrant sale on her home. Of Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1988 and 1992. She was also the first female 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.
She changed her mind, and said in 2014 that devolution had worked, and that the next step was independence.
