1. John Robert Lamont was born on 15 April 1976 and is a Scottish Conservative Party politician and solicitor who has served as the Member of Parliament for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk since 2017, and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from July to November 2024.
John Lamont served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland between October 2022 to July 2024.
John Lamont was born on 15 April 1976 in Kilwinning to Robert and Elizabeth Lamont.
John Lamont was educated at Kilwinning Academy and studied at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow where he gained a first class honours degree.
John Lamont worked as a solicitor at Freshfields in London and then at Brodies in Edinburgh.
In 2002, John Lamont stood as a candidate in the London Borough of Lambeth in the Brixton ward where he finished in 10th place.
John Lamont stood in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk on three occasions before being elected in 2017; at the 2005,2010 and 2015 general elections.
In May 2007, John Lamont was elected Member of the Scottish Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire.
From 1 March to 22 March 2011, John Lamont was briefly Convener of the Justice Committee following the resignation of Bill Aitken.
John Lamont caused controversy in May 2011, for accusing Catholic education in the west of Scotland to be 'state-sponsored conditioning of sectarian attitudes'.
John Lamont announced his intention to stand down from this Holyrood seat effective 4 May 2017 to stand at the snap 2017 general election for the House of Commons constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
John Lamont was given the role of Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Office in November 2021.
John Lamont resigned from this position on 6 June 2022 in order to vote against Boris Johnson in the vote of no confidence.
John Lamont was previously critical of Johnson over the parties in Number 10 during lockdown, saying it was "sickening" to read about them.
John Lamont ran the 2019 London Marathon, raising money for Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal.