- George Lyon
George Lyon (born 16 July 1956 in Rothesay) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and a former
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute, and former Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business.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 theScottish Parliament (to representArgyll and Bute ) at the 1999 election. It is rumoured thatJohn Swinney , the then Vice-Convenor of theScottish 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 asDeputy First Minister of Scotland , Lyon was appointed Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business in theScottish Executive .He lost his seat in the 2007 election to
Jim Mather of theScottish National Party .ee also
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List of Scottish Executive Ministerial Teams George Lyon is top of the Scottish Liberal Democrat's list for the 2009 European elections.External links
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* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/historic/s2/george_lyon/index.htm George Lyon MSP] official 2003-2007 biography at the Scottish Parliament website
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