Frank Millar Jr
Frank Millar Jr | |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South | |
In office 1984–1986 | |
Preceded by | Edgar Graham |
Succeeded by | Assembly abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Political party | Ulster Unionist |
Frank Millar is a Northern Irish journalist and former unionist politician.
Background
The son of Frank Millar, also a unionist politician, he was known as "Frank Millar Jr" during his early political career. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and remained a member when his father left the organisation to sit as an independent Unionist.
Millar was the Press Officer of the UUP during the early 1980s.[1] He stood unsuccessfully for 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly in South Antrim.[2] However, he was elected to that body in 1984 in an uncontested by-election in Belfast South caused by the IRA murder of Edgar Graham.[3]
In 1983, Millar became the General Secretary of the UUP.[1] At the 1987 UK general election, he stood in Belfast West, receiving 18.7% of the votes cast.[4] The same year, he worked with UUP MP Harold McCusker and the DUP's Peter Robinson to produce a report on power sharing, following a positive report on the topic by the Ulster Political Research Group. The Task Force Report gave serious consideration to the idea, and called for a strategic unionist rethink in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It was rejected by their respective leaders, Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux. Millar then resigned from his party post.[5]
Millar subsequently became a journalist and has long been the London Editor of the Irish Times. In 1998, he was named the Irish Print Journalist of the Year. In 2004, he wrote a biography of UUP leader David Trimble, entitled David Trimble: The Price of Peace.[6]
References
- ^ a b Graham S. Walker, A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism And Pessimism
- ^ South Antrim 1973-1982, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ South Belfast 1973-1984, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ UK Parliamentary Election results: 1983-97: Northern Irish Boroughs
- ^ Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry, The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements
- ^ "David Trimble by Frank Millar", Global-Investor Bookshop
Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) | ||
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Preceded by Edgar Graham | MPA for South Belfast 1983–1986 | Assembly abolished |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Norman Hutton | General Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Party 1983–1987 | Succeeded by Jim Wilson |
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related organisations
- Progenitor: Irish Unionist Alliance
- Allies: Labour Unionists/Liberal Unionist/Conservatives
- Offshoots: Vanguard (1973–78)/NI21 (2013-16)
- Electoral alliance: UCUNF (2009)