Education
He studied Accounting and Finance at Edinburgh Napier University.
He studied Accounting and Finance at Edinburgh Napier University.
Thompson was brought up in Loanhead after moving there when he was seven. Thompson had previously been the leader of Midlothian Council. He was first elected to the council in the Loanhead by-election 2005.
At the age of 27, he was Scotland’s youngest councillor at the time.
He was then re-elected in the 2007 council election and again in the 2012 council election. In December 2014, the Bonnyrigg, Loanhead and District Scottish National Party branch nominated Thompson to be the party’s candidate in the 2015 General Election.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Midlothian with 24,453 votes, a 50.6% share of the votes cast. He was sworn into office at Westminster on 20 May 2015, and on that same day was given a position in the Scottish National Party Whips Office under Scottish National Party Chief Whip Mike Weir.
He became leader of the council in November 2013, succeeding his party colleague Bob Constable.
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He was elected in 2015 as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Midlothian.