Norman Lamont Norman Lamont Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC (born 8 May 1942) is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames. He is best known for his period serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1990 until 1993. He was created a life peer in 1998. Lamont is a supporter of the Eurosceptic organisation Leave Means Leave. Lamont was born in Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, where his father was the islands' surgeon. He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, Scotland, and read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Cambridge University
Irish issue in British politics Irish issue in British politics The status of Ireland was a major issue in British politics often on for centuries. The Irish issue was the single major source of political upheaval, – and political violence, in British politics throughout the 19th century into the early 1920s. Religion was a key factor: Catholics comprise a large majority, but were impoverished and penalized and politically inert before the 1820s. In Ulster, a strong middle-class Presbyterian element had built an industrial base. Political control of Ireland was in the hands of several thousand rich English families, who owned practically all the good farmland.