Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party is a conservative, eurosceptic political party active in Northern Ireland.

Website:

http://www.uup.org/

People

Leaders

• Colonel E.J. Saunderson 1905–1906
• Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long 1906–1910
• Sir Edward Carson 1910–1921
• James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon 1921–1940
• John Miller Andrews 1940–1946
• Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough 1946–1963
• Captain Terence O'Neill 1963–1969
• Major James Chichester-Clark 1969–1971
• Brian Faulkner 1971–1974
• Harry West 1974–1979
• James Molyneaux 1979–1995
• David Trimble 1995–2005
• Sir Reg Empey 2005–2010
• Tom Elliott 2010–2012
• Mike Nesbitt 2012–present

Resources

• DUP and UUP discussed merger, 12 march 2013.
• Elliott: I didn’t sanction Unionist merger talks, Belfast Newsletter, 13 March 2013.

Notes

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