SCOTTISH Tory MP John Lamont has been appointed as a minister in the Scotland Office following the reported sacking of his colleague David Duguid.
Lamont, who has represented Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk at Westminster since 2017, becomes parliamentary under secretary of state in Alister Jack’s department.
The former Foreign Office minister quit government during the summer in order to vote against former prime minister Boris Johnson in a vote of no-confidence.
