George Lyon

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George Lyon (born 16 July 1956 in Rothesay) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute, and 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 the Scottish Parliament (to represent Argyll and Bute) at the 1999 election. It is rumoured that John Swinney, the then Vice-Convenor of the Scottish 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 as Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Lyon was appointed Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business in the Scottish Executive.