Paul William Monaghan (born 1966) is a Scottish National Party politician who is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.He was elected to the House of Commons in 2015, polling 15,831 individual votes or 46.3% of the cast vote, defeating the long-term incumbent Liberal Democrat MP John Thurso by 3,844 votes.Monaghan was the founder of the Yes Highland campaign which supported a Yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.