Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton (* June 27, 1940 in Glasgow, Scotland ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party.

Life

After education at Rugby School and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he worked as an insurance broker and agent at Lloyd 's of London.

Long was first elected after two unsuccessful candidates, candidate of the Conservative Party in the general election in 1979 as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) and represented in this first of the constituency Galloway. In the subsequent elections in 1983, he was elected for the constituency of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale in the House of Commons and was this after elections in 1987 and 1992 until 1997.

In 1987 he was first entrusted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as " junior ministers " with the perception of government work and was first Minister of State for Scotland.

In the reign of Thatcher's successor John Major in 1990 he was finally self Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) and saw during his last until 1995 tenure with the difficult task of managing the part of the country entrusted, especially since only one-eighth of the House of Representatives of Scotland members of the conservative Tories were.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle was long in July 1995 by Major to Minister for Industry and Commerce ( Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ) and also appointed as Chairman of the Board of Trade. These offices he held until May 1997.

When the Conservative Party suffered a heavy defeat to the Labour Party at the general election in May 1997, he was among the prominent victims who lost their constituency.

After retiring from the House, he was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Lang of Monkton in the peerage, is now on the House of Lords (House of Lords).

At the same time he is back in the private sector and since 1997 he board member of Marsh & McLennan Companies.