Tributes to "trailblazing" Winnie Ewing from Lanarkshire politicians

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Fulsome tributes have been paid to “trailblazing” former Hamilton MP Winnie Ewing, who famously won the town’s Westminster by-election in 1967 to become the SNP’s first female MP and begin a storied political career across four decades and three parliaments.The legendary politician, a linchpin of the Scottish independence movement and described by her family as “the most important Scottish politician of her generation”, died yesterday at the age of 93.She represented her Lanarkshire constituency at the House of Commons for three years following the sensational Hamilton win; later becoming a member of the European Parliament, SNP president and serving in the first Scottish Parliament – where she led its historic first session in 1999.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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