John Lamont.

Largely loyal to the Conservative whip, John Lamont has broken ranks twice in this parliament — backing the generational tobacco ban in March 2025 despite his party opposing it, and supporting a move to remove Church of England bishops from the Lords in November 2024. More recently, his votes have clustered around defence: he backed several Conservative amendments to the Armed Forces Bill in June 2026 and supported the opposition motion demanding faster action on military readiness. He has also pushed for greater scrutiny of the National Security (State Threats) Bill, voting against its timetable restriction and for amendments preserving judicial oversight.

At 77% participation, Lamont is broadly in line with the Commons average, and outside those rebel moments he votes with his party 99.5% of the time — one of the most consistent Conservative loyalists in the House. His 399 speech contributions span economy and jobs, local government, fiscal policy, health, and defence. His stance data places him firmly against tax increases and progressive taxation, and he scores maximum alignment on pro-business votes, though he diverges from his party by taking a noticeably harder line against assisted dying access — 25 percentage points more restrictive than the Conservative average.

His news coverage reveals a constituency-focused MP. He has raised rural mobile signal blackspots and the Borders water supply failure in parliament, championed ultrafast broadband for remote communities, and used a cancer debate to highlight a constituent's difficulty accessing clinical trials. He sits on four committees — Modernisation, Petitions, Procedure, and Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs — suggesting an interest in how parliament operates. Recent news sentiment data is insufficient to identify any trend.