Ulster Unionist Parties
Ulster Unionist PartiesPolitical parties in Northern Ireland supporting maintenance of the union with the UK. In 1886 Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain formed the Liberal Unionists, allying with the Conservatives and pledging to maintain the Union of Ireland with the rest of the United Kingdom. In 1920 , with the division of Ireland, the majority party in Northern Ireland was the Unionist wing of the Conservative Party, now calling itself the Ulster Unionists, under Sir James Craig , who was Prime Minister ( 1921 – 40 ). The party, supported by a Protestant electorate, continued to rule under his successors, until the imposition of direct rule from Westminster in ...
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