UK Unionist Party: Difference between revisions

| ideology = {{plainlist|
*[[Unionism in Ireland|Unionism]]<br />
*[[Nonsectarianism]]<br />
*[[Direct rule over Northern Ireland|Integrationism]]|}}

The '''UK Unionist Party''' ('''UKUP''') was a small [[Unionism in Ireland|unionist]]<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090614071557/http://www.parties-and-elections.de:80/nireland.html|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/nireland.html|archivedate=2009-06-14|year=2007|title=Northern Ireland/UK|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=Parties and Elections in Europe}}</ref> [[list of political parties in Northern Ireland|political party in Northern Ireland]] from 1995 to 2008 that opposed to the [[Good Friday Agreement]]. It was nominally formed by [[Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)|Robert McCartney]], formerly of the [[Ulster Unionist Party]], to contest the [[1995 North Down by-election]] and then further constituted to contest the 1996 elections for the [[Northern Ireland Forum]]. McCartney had previously contested the [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987 general election]] as an independent using the label '''Real Unionist'''.