William Ross is a Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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 unionist

Unionism in Ireland

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 politician. He served as the Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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 member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Londonderry (later East Londonderry

East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

East Londonderry is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Londonderry constituency...

) from February 1974

United Kingdom general election, February 1974

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 until 2001

United Kingdom general election, 2001

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. He was one of the UUP members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement.

For some years he was a member of the Conservative Monday Club

Conservative Monday Club

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 (which followed the Tory tradition of being Conservative and Unionist). In September 1982 he was chairman of the Club's Northern Ireland Committee when it published a Policy Paper entitled Proposals for a Constitutional Settlement [for Ulster].

In June 2008, it was announced that he had been made the party president of Traditional Unionist Voice

Traditional Unionist Voice

Traditional Unionist Voice is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland founded on 7 December 2007, as an anti-St Andrews Agreement splinter group from the Democratic Unionist Party . Its first and current leader is Jim Allister who, until 2009, sat as an independent Member of the European...

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William Ross stood for Traditional Unionist Voice in the 2010 UK General Election in the East Londonderry

East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

East Londonderry is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Londonderry constituency...

 Constituency.

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