Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

While the Liberal Party were able to heal their divisions and rally for Free Trade, the Unionist division became more apparent.

Inspired by MacManaway's blend of unionism and Protestantism, Paisley joined independent Unionist MP Norman Porter's National Union of Protestants, but left after Porter refused to join the Free Presbyterians.

This departure from Free Trade ( i. e. no tariff barriers ) caused immediate problems within the Unionist alliance, but especially with the Devonshire section of the Liberal Unionists.

Rejecting Tariff Reform, Devonshire and other supporters of Free Trade left the Liberal Unionist Association in 1904 in protest.

The Boundary Commission was expected to recommend the transfer of many border areas to the Irish Free State, and the Unionist election slogan was " Not an Inch !".

He accepted the chairmanship of the Royal Commission on Ritualistic Practices in the Church, and he did valuable work as an arbitrator ; and though when the fiscal controversy arose he became the first president of the Unionist Free Food League, his parliamentary loyalty to Balfour did much to prevent the Unionist free-traders from precipitating a rupture.

His eldest son, the sixth Marquess, sat as Unionist Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1908 to 1918 and was a Senator of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Despite his Unionist background, Smith played an important role in the negotiations that led to the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, which established an independent Irish Free State the following year.

Robert Thomas William McCrea ( born 6 August 1948 ) is a politician from Northern Ireland, Free Presbyterian minister and a member of the Democratic Unionist Party.

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, had served as Unionist MP for South Dublin ( 1892 – 1900 ), but became a convinced Home Rule supporter by 1912 as an alternative to the partition of Ireland, and served as a member of the first Irish Free State Senate ( 1922 – 23 ).

The Tunisian Union of Free Radio Stations and the Unionist Freedoms and Rights Observatory joined El Heni in the lawsuit and called Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to testify.

: The Political Frame-Up of a Unionist and Socialist and the Campaign to Free Him.

He objected to Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for tariff reform, and at the general election of 1906 he stood as an independent Free Trader, but came third, behind the two official Unionist candidates, and lost his seat.

Little contested the constituency of Dublin Rathmines but lost to the Unionist Maurice Dockrell, the only Unionist elected outside of Trinity College, Dublin in what was to become the Irish Free State.

* Following a number of high-profile comments made by Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) Iris Robinson, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a finding that an advertisement placed by the Kirk Session of the Sandown Free Presbyterian Church breached advertising codes.

Despite this setback, he again stood for Lincoln in the General Election of January 1910 as a Liberal Unionist in support of Free Trade and was again opposed by a Liberal and a Conservative.

In May 1910, the Unionist (" Progressive ") Party of the Cape Colony merged with the Constitutional Party of the Orange Free State ( known as the Orange River Colony from 1902 to 1910 ) and the Progressives of Transvaal to form the Unionist Party of South Africa.

He is the son of journalist Mazhar Ali Khan and activist mother Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan ( daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan who led the Unionist Muslim League and was later Prime Minister of the Punjab from 1937 – 1942 ).

The Indian political parties were the following: All India Muslim League, Communist Party of India, Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam, Hindu Mahasabha, Indian National Congress, Khaksar Tehrik, and Unionist Muslim League ( mainly in the Punjab ).

William O ' Brien alone made a concerted effort to accommodate Unionist concerns in his All-for-Ireland League ( AFIL ) political programme, prepared to concede any reasonable concessions to Ulster, denounced by both the Irish Party and clergy.

* Unionist Muslim League

Despite the fact that the town of Carrickfergus, where he was born and raised, was strongly Unionist, he joined the Gaelic League as a youth, and was won over to the cause of Irish nationalism.

Following the Unionist fall from power in December 1905, Long became one of the leading opposition voices against the Liberals ' plans for home rule in Ireland, helping to found the Ulster Defence League in 1907.

He formed the Unionist Party ( Zamindara League ) in 1923 ; a cross-communal alliance of Hindu Jats and Muslim agriculturists committed to the Land Alienation.

He was an important leader of the Muslim League when the feudal aristocrat class were members of the Unionist Party.

He and his followers then formed the Irish Unionist Anti-Partition League, an elite body mainly concerned with lobbying.

( Industrial Unionist did not appear until 1932, but its first issue included Louis Lazarowitz's review of Walter H. Senior's The Bankruptcy of Reform, published by the Industrial Union League itself ).

), 1927 ; Chairman of Committee on redistribution of Royal Ordnance Factories, 1934 ; Chancellor of the Primrose League, 1931 ; Vice-Chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1930 – 1932 ; Government Delegate to League of Nations, Geneva, 1933 ; Chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936 – 1942 ; Member General Medical Council, 1932 – 1947 ; 5th Bn Surrey Home Guard, 1940-1944.

He was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1937 and immediately joined the cabinet of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, who had successfully led the Unionist Muslim League in the election, as Minister of Public Works.

In contrast her brother Edward Lawless was a landowner with strong Unionist opinions, a policy of not employing Roman Catholics in any position in his household, and chairman of the Property Defence Association set up in 1880 to oppose the Land League and " uphold the rights of property against organised combination to defraud ".

In 2008, the Conservative Party formed a pact with the Ulster Unionist Party to select joint candidates for European and House of Commons elections ; this angered the DUP as by splitting the Unionist vote, republican parties will be elected in some areas.

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

By the mid 1980s, a Loyalist paramilitary-style organisation called Ulster Resistance was formed on 10 November 1986 by Ian Paisley, then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), Peter Robinson of the DUP, and Ivan Foster.

The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party.

When the dissident Liberals eventually formed the Liberal Unionist Council, which was to become the Liberal Unionist party, Chamberlain organised the separate National Radical Union in Birmingham.

Salisbury formed his second government-a minority Conservative government with Liberal Unionist support.

In Ireland, unionist resistance ( especially after the Irish Unionist Party was formed ) became increasingly organised.

When a coalition " National Government " was formed in 1931 to deal with a financial crisis Dunglass was adopted as the pro-coalition Unionist candidate for Lanark.

In 1932 a home rule organisation, the Scottish Party, was formed by former members of the then Unionist Party, precursor of the modern Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

The Scottish Party was formed in 1930 by a group of members of the Unionist Party who favoured the establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament within the British Empire and Commonwealth.

Unionists eventually formed their own representation, first the Irish Unionist Party then the Ulster Unionist Party.

In Northern Ireland, the mainly Catholic nationalist community formed a minority in a largely Protestant and Unionist state.

It formed an electoral pact with the Liberals, intending to cause maximum damage to the Unionist Government in the forthcoming election.

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition ( TUSC ) was formed in January 2010 to fight the 2010 general election.

It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney, formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party, to contest a by-election the North Down by-election, 1995 and then further constituted to contest the 1996 elections for the Northern Ireland Forum.

It was formed in January 1999 as a splinter party from the UK Unionist Party ( UKUP ).

Most of these realignments occurred within the unionist parties, with several defections between existing parties and two new parties being formed-the United Unionist Coalition ( formed by the three MLAs elected as independent unionists, though one later joined the Democratic Unionist Party ) and the Northern Ireland Unionist Party ( formed by four of the five MLAs elected as the UK Unionist Party, though one later left them, joined the Democratic Unionists for a period but contested the election as an independent unionist ).