In 2005 Balfour praised his parents and teachers saying that they got the correct balance "between pushing me to do things and when I could not, finding other ways of getting me involved.

[1] Balfour came from a family which included several lawyers and decided to pursue a legal career so then studied at the University of Edinburgh.

[4][5] In 2018, Balfour came under pressure to resign as the Scottish Conservative's welfare spokesperson for suggesting that terminally-ill people who don't die within three years should be re-assessed for benefits.

He refused to apologise for the remarks, but was forced to withdraw the amendment to the Social Security (Scotland) Bill.

[6] Balfour currently serves as the Scottish Conservatives' Deputy Social Security, Housing and Equalities Spokesperson.

[7] Balfour was awarded 'Speech of the Year' by Holyrood Magazine in June 2019 for a speech on the 70th anniversary of the NHS.

Balfour is also the member of many other cross-party groups entering on sport, disability, education and on matters relating to equality.

"[1] The Evangelical Alliance is openly opposed to "all attitudes and actions which victimise or diminish" people with same-sex attraction, but believes that marriage between one man and one woman "is the only form of partnership approved by God for sexual relations" and so does not accept "sexually active same-sex partnerships as a legitimate form of Christian relationship.

In keeping with his aforementioned views on discrimination, Balfour distanced himself from the think-tank after it emerged it had produced a report questioning the morality of victims of rape who take the morning-after pill.

There were lots of us around who either had upper or lower limb operations and fifty years on from that I happened to be asking staff how many people born more recently with a similar disability do they treat?