Education
University of Glasgow.
politician Member of the Scottish Parliament
University of Glasgow.
Lamont is the Scottish Conservative Chief Whip and Parliamentary Business Manager. Lamont was educated at Kilwinning Academy and studied at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow where he gained a First Class degree. He worked as a solicitor at Freshfields in London and then at Brodies in Edinburgh.
As well as becoming involved in local politics, he became the chairman of his local Conservative association and was the Conservative candidate for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk at the 2005, 2010 and 2015 general elections.