Reform, having been nominated to represent Scottish Labour. In May 2018, Lamont was selected as Scottish Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for the Glasgow South UK Parliament constituency. In the 2017 general election, the constituency had been held by the SNP's Stewart McDonald with a majority of just 2,027. She contested the seat at the snap general election in December 2019 but was defeated by McDonald, whose majority increased to 9,005 over Labour. Lamont nominated Anas Sarwar in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election. In 2022, Lamont was named as a founding member of the Board of Directors of Beira's Place, a Scotland-based private support service for female victims of sexual violence. Politics and views Although she has been criticised by SNP politicians for taking a "Blairite" stance on public services, The Guardians Peter Hetherington has described Lamont as "rooted to older [Labour] party values, with a deep commitment to fairness". Her politics were heavily influenced by her inner city upbringing and her career in teaching. Her childhood experience was something she addressed in an emotional speech to delegates at the 2013 Scottish Labour Party Conference: "I saw in my upbringing the beauty of our land and felt both the warmth of community and the harshness and brutality at times of trying to make a living here. I had the privilege to grow up in a family of love, but one where my mother always reminded me that what we ate, what we wore, where we lived, was all the product of the sweat of my father's brow earned at sea. And I respected that." Lamont played a prominent role in the Better Together campaign that successfully persuaded Scots to vote to keep the Union in 2014. Speaking to the Labour party conference in 2013, she said: "The politics of identity is not the politics of justice. It wasn’t Scots, or the English or the Welsh or the Irish who fought for women’s votes, it was women and men who believed in justice... And I believe that Scotland is too big a country to hide behind Hadrian’s Wall and not play our part in fighting injustice in all its forms throughout these islands, and through partnership with our friends and neighbours across the world." Throughout her career, Lamont has campaigned on issues such as equality and violence against women. Her profile on the Scottish Parliament website lists her political interests