Frank Millar is a

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and former unionist

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. The son of Frank Millar, also a unionist politician, he was known as "Frank Millar Jr" during his early political career. He joined the

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(UUP), and remained a member when his father left the organisation to sit as an

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. Millar was the Press Officer of the UUP during the early 1980s.Graham S. Walker, ''A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism And Pessimism'' He stood unsuccessfully for 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly in South Antrim. 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 Edgar Samuel David Graham, MPA, BL (1954 – 7 December 1983), was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician and academic from Northern Ireland. He was regarded as a rising star of both legal studies and Unionism, and a possible future leader ...

. In 1983, Millar became the General Secretary of the UUP. At the 1987 UK general election, he stood in Belfast West, receiving 18.7% of the votes cast. The same year, he worked with UUP MP

Harold McCusker James Harold McCusker (7 February 1940 – 12 February 1990) was a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the UUP Assembly Group from 1982 to 1986. Early life The younger son of Jim and Lily McCu ...

and the DUP's Peter Robinson to produce a report on

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, following a positive report on the topic by the

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. 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 James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC (27 August 1920 – 9 March 2015) was a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1979 to 1995, and as the Member of Parliament ...

. Millar then resigned from his party post. Millar subsequently became a

and has long been the London Editor of the ''

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''. In 1998, he was named the Irish Print Journalist of the Year. In 2004, he wrote a biography of UUP leader

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, entitled ''David Trimble: The Price of Peace''.David Trimble by Frank Millar
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Millar, Frank (Jr) Living people Northern Ireland MPAs 1982–1986 Journalists from Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politicians Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland Year of birth missing (living people)