Books by Brian Monteith

One of the Scottish Parliament's more colourful and controversial members, Brian Monteith is used to swimming against the prevailing tide in Scottish politics. Cutting his teeth in student politics he then worked for Michael Forsyth, Teddy Taylor and Iain Sproat. He ran campaigns against Devolution in 1979 and 1997 and was elected to Holyrood in 1999 where he was Tory spokesman for education culture and sport, and then finance, before becoming an independent member in 2006. He is Convener of the Scottish Parliament's powerful Audit Committee and a regular columnist in the Scottish papers commenting on economics, culture and politics.