Johann Lamont

Quick Facts

Full Name	Johann Lamont
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 11, 1957(1957-07-11)
Age	67
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Cancer

Johann Lamont Biography

Johann Lamont is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 11, 1957 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Johann Lamont was born in the Anderston district of Glasgow on the 11th of July in 1957. The parents of Johann Lamont, Archie and Effie, were both Gaelic people from families of crofting located on the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree They met after both of them relocated to Glasgow. Archie was a carpenter employed by Scottish ferry service Caledonian MacBrayne, working on the Mallaig to Skye route. He was part of the Seamen’s Strike of 1966. The family was Presbyterians and his mother was heavily influenced by the American preacher Billy Graham. Her first exposure to public speaking was to listen to the preachers that her mother would take to watch when she was a young girl.

The family was born in Glasgow, Lamont attended Woodside Secondary School and graduated with an education in The University of Glasgow. After completing teaching courses through Jordanhill College, she became teacher. A member of the Labour Party since she was at university, Lamont served on its Scottish Executive Committee, and was its chair in 1993. Following the creation of an elected legislature devolved in Scotland and the Scottish Parliament, she was elected an official Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Pollok in 1999. After being appointed as the chairperson for the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice Committee in 2001 and her first ministerial post in the month of October.

Lamont was appointed convener of the Communities Committee in 2003. In March 2004 the Committee endorsed a bill aimed at tackling antisocial behaviour, which included plans for parenting orders and the electronic tagging of youths under the age of 16. First Minister Jack McConnell made her Deputy Minister for Communities in the Scottish Executive in October 2004. In that post she was responsible for the launch of a radio and television advertising campaign aimed at tackling domestic abuse that aired over Christmas 2005, and she expressed concerns over the level of discrimination faced by travellers and gypsies after the issue was highlighted in a 2005 Scottish Parliament report.

In November 2006, Lamont was appointed Deputy Minister for Justice and oversaw reforms to Scotland’s Lower Courts system. She held the post until Labour was defeated at the 2007 election. McConnell appointed her as Labour’s spokesperson for Communities and Sport in his post-election frontbench team, a role she retained in the shadow cabinet formed by his successor, Wendy Alexander, in September 2007. Following Alexander’s decision to step down as leader of the Labour MSPs in June 2008, and Cathy Jamieson’s subsequent resignation as her deputy, Lamont stood against fellow MSP Bill Butler for the position vacated by Jamieson. She was elected as deputy leader in September 2008 with 60.16 percent of the vote, against 39.82 percent for Butler. At the same time, Iain Gray was elected to lead the Labour group at Holyrood.

While still active with continuing to be active in Labour Party, Lamont became an active campaigner on equality, social justice and devolution. While she had not voted in the referendum of 1979 which proposed the creation of the Scottish Assembly, during the 1990s and 1980s, she served as elected to the Scottish Constitutional Convention which was which was the body that laid the route towards Scottish devolution. In her 1979 vote, Lamont has said that she “came from the strand on the left which saw the politics of nationalism as a diversion from more central aims [but later] came to see the parliament as a vehicle for democratic change in Scotland.” She was an active participant in the Scottish Executive Committee of the Labour Party, serving as chairman in 1993.

Johann Lamont Net Worth

Johann Lamont is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Johann Lamont 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Johann MacDougall Lamont (/”dZ oU” ae n la ae m born on July 11, 1957) is a Scottish politician who served as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 until 2014. She was an assistant minister in the Labour-Liberal Democratic coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition’s demise to the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007. She was then elected as deputy leader of the opposition Labour group of MSPs in 2008. She was also elected to the position of leader of the Scottish Labour Party in December 2011. Her resignation was announced in October of 2014, and following a leadership vote to succeed her, she was succeeding by the the former Secretary of State to Scotland Jim Murphy in December 2014.

Lamont’s childhood was split among Glasgow along with her maternal house on Tiree which she along with her brother David were able to spend their summer holiday. She was a student at Woodside Secondary School, having not taken the scholarship exam to pursue a selective educational program. As her parents she was a Gaelic speaker, however she was not convinced that she could speak it fluently enough so she dropped it from school in favor for French as well as German. It was at school that she began to develop an interest in the political arena after she entered an Daily Mirror competition with a short story that was a political theme. The story, in which the main character talked about her plans to get a raise and was discovered to be Queen, was awarded the Lamont 3rd prize. She was a student of English in addition to History in the University of Glasgow, graduating with an MA. After joining in the Labour Party around 1975, she became active within Glasgow’s Glasgow University Labour Club where she was a close friend of her fellow Labour leader Margaret Curran, and was involved in female activists. She studied to become an educator for a period of time in Jordanhill College, gaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education then became a teacher at Rothesay Academy, Isle of Bute as teacher in 1979. The school she taught in was Springburn Academy in Glasgow from 1982 to 1989 , as well as in Castlemilk High School, also located in Glasgow between 1990 and 1999. Lamont was a teacher of English and collaborated with educational psychologists to address the problem of school Truancy.

During her maiden speech on 17 May 1999, Lamont was the first MSP to use Gaelic at a sitting of the Parliament. She served on a number of the Parliament’s committees during her first term in office, including the Equal Opportunities Committee, the Local Government Committee and the Social Justice Committee. She became convener of the Social Justice Committee in 2001. In 2000 she became the first Labour MSP to rebel against the Labour-led administration when she threatened to lead backbenchers in voting against a planned Scottish Executive attempt to block the Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Bill, which had been introduced by Sheridan. The move resulted in the withdrawal of the amendment, and a crucial parliamentary vote in favour of the legislation. At a session of First Minister’s Questions in 2002, she narrowly avoided becoming the first MSP to be ejected from the parliament after continuing to speak when Presiding Officer David Steel had told her to sit down. Steel felt her supplementary question about youth crime was too long, but the incident led to a heated parliamentary debate, and accusations from Lamont’s colleague, Labour’s Helen Eadie that the Presiding Officer was not treating male and female MSPs equally, an allegation he rejected.

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Lamont gave her first post-election interview to The Politics Show Scotland on 18 December 2011, speaking of the “huge challenge” of rebuilding public trust in Scottish Labour after its election defeat of the previous May, and a general decline in support over the preceding decade. Attributing the party’s losses to its failure to engage with the electorate, she told the programme that Labour needed to speak up for the interests of the Scottish people, and accept more devolved powers for the Scottish Parliament. Attending her first session of First Minister’s Questions as Labour leader on 22 December 2011, she addressed the issue of child neglect following the conviction of a Glasgow woman for the murder of her son and asking what lessons could be learned from the case.

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The result of the election was announced on 17 December 2011 and saw Lamont secure an overall majority with 51.77% of the vote in the first round. Her closest rival was Macintosh with 40.28%, while Harris was third with 7.95%. Lamont also won majorities in two groups of Labour’s three-tier electoral college system, securing the support of parliamentarians and affiliated bodies such as trade unions. Macintosh was backed by the majority of individual party members. In her acceptance speech, Lamont told party activists, “Together we will change the Scottish Labour Party and win the chance to serve the people of Scotland again and make Scotland all that we know it can be.” On the same day, MP Anas Sarwar was elected to the position of Deputy that Lamont had vacated.