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Preceded by
  
New Creation

Party
  
Ulster Unionist Party

Role
  
Politician


Name
  
Duncan Shipley-Dalton

Succeeded by
  
David Burnside

Born
  
7 November 1970 (age 53) (
1970-11-07
)

Alma mater
  
University of Essex, Queen's University Belfast

Education
  
University of Essex, Queen's University Belfast

Political party
  
Ulster Unionist Party

Duncan Shipley Dalton (born 7 November 1970) is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Born in Newport, Isle of Wight, Shipley Dalton attended the University of Essex and Queen's University Belfast before becoming a barrister. He holds degrees in Law LL.B(Hons), Human Rights Law LL.M and Public Administration MPA. From 1993–1994 he worked for the Police Authority for Northern Ireland. Then, from 1994–98, he served in the Royal Irish Regiment.

Biography

Shipley Dalton became a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in 1993 and was also an activist in the Young Unionists. In May 1996 Shipley Dalton was an unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative Party in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Strangford, gaining 380 votes or 0.9%. He subsequently returned to the UUP. After the completion of the Stormont talks in 1998 Shipley Dalton was a supporter of the Belfast Agreement. At the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was elected in South Antrim. He initially aimed to be selected as the party's candidate in the South Antrim by-election in 2000, but later withdrew, claiming that the party leadership preferred David Campbell to be their candidate. He endorsed David Campbell, but announced his retirement from Assembly politics at the forthcoming 2003 election.

After standing down, Shipley Dalton moved to the United States, where he was a supporter of the Democratic Party.

He returned to the UK in May 2008. Since then he has lived in Southampton.

In March 2012 he joined the UK Labour Party. In the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections he supported Jeremy Corbyn. He is also a member of Unite the Union, Momentum and Disabled People Against Cuts.

References

Duncan Shipley-Dalton Wikipedia