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Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey OBE (born 26 October 1947) is a British politician who was the Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 2005 to 2010, and has been its Chairman since 2012. Empey was also twice Lord Mayor of Belfast and was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Belfast from 1998 to 2011.
Political career
He first entered politics in the late 1960s when he joined the Ulster Young Unionist Council. Empey then rejoined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and was elected to Belfast City Council, serving as Lord Mayor in 1989–1990 and 1993–1994. He was appointed an OBE in 1994 for services to local government. Empey became increasingly prominent in the UUP and was often a member of its negotiating teams throughout the 1990s. In 1996 Empey was ...
Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Employment and Learning presents Investors in People award to Directors of Abacus at Hillsborough Castle (Sep 07) , positive
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has confirmed Sir Reg Empey is to leave the Assembly.The decision follows his elevation to the House of Lords.The party's former leader, who stepped down after its disastrous general election performance last year, will not contest May's Assembly election.UUP leader Tom Elliott paid tribute to Lord Empey's 25 years as a representative of East Belfast.
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Source: Belfast Telegraph
The executive must be fully involved in any decision to devolve policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland, Sir Reg Empey has told the UUP conference.
Sir Reg told delegates in Belfast that the UUP would reject a "backroom deal" between the DUP and Sinn Fein.
He also warned both parties that any justice deal needed the backing of all NI's main parties to win support.
Sir Reg said his party would oppose any move to appoint an Alliance "puppet" justice minister.
"I want to expose the lie at the heart of the executive - the belief that the DUP and Sinn Fein can go it alone and hope to ...
Published Date: 03 January 2009
ULSTER Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey has accused Peter Robinson of airbrushing out the failings of DUP-Sinn Fein partnership government.The First Minister gave a New Year interview in which he claimed the uneasy coalition with republicans had "defied critics" and was delivering stability, but Sir Reg claimed the DUP leader was looking through rose-tinted glasses."It seems quite clear that Peter Robinson has been given an airbrush for Christmas and has been using it in an effort to remove all trace of the difficulties that have hung over the Executive ...