In 1988 he joined Procter and Gamble in Newcastle upon Tyne as a Brand Assistant. He soon moved on from developing brands to developing people, becoming Corporate Training and Organisation Development Manager in 1991. He was promoted to Global Human Resources Training Manager in 1996.
Lembit was elected to the Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive Committee in 1991, and to Newcastle City Council in 1992. He stood in Newcastle Central in the 1992 General Election and in the largely rural seat of Northumbria in the 1994 European Elections.
In September 1996, Lembit was selected as the new Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Montgomeryshire, to replace retiring MP Alex Carlile QC.
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