John David Home Robertson (born 5 December 1948) is a retired Labour politician in Scotland.

John David Home Robertson was born at 18 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh, the son of John Wallace Robertson, Lieutenant-Colonel of the King's Own Scottish Borderers regiment, who assumed the additional surname in 1933, by Scottish Licence, of Home following his marriage that year to Helen Margaret (1905–1987), elder daughter and heiress of David William Milne-Home (1873–1918), of Wedderburn & Paxton, Berwickshire.

[citation needed] Home Robertson was an Independent member of Berwickshire District Council from 1974 to 1978, representing Burnmouth, Foulden and Hutton ward.

[5][4] A Europhile, he was one of only five Labour MPs to vote for the Third Reading of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, defying his party Whip, which was to abstain.

Having left Westminster in 2001, he announced that he would stand down from the Scottish Parliament in 2007,[7] and was succeeded as MSP for East Lothian by Iain Gray.