George Lyon
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- This article is about the Scottish politician. For other people with the same name, see George Lyon (disambiguation).
Previously a Vice-President, then President of the National Farmers Union of Scotland, he joined the Liberal Democrats not long before he was first elected to the Scottish Parliament (to represent Argyll and Bute) at the 1999 election. It is rumoured that John Swinney, the then Vice-Convenor of the Scottish National Party had tried to persuade him to join the nationalists.
He was re-elected in the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Election and is currently a co-convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on the Scottish Economy.
Following Nicol Stephen's election as party leader and succession as Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Lyon was appointed Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business in the Scottish Executive.
Many people in his constituency believe he spends too much time in Edinburgh and not enough in his constituency attending to local matters. It has been a point for much discussion.
See also
External links
- [George Lyon MSP] official site
- [George Lyon MSP] official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
- [George Lyon MSP] profile at the site of Scottish Liberal Democrats
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