John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC, is a former Ulster Unionist Party Northern Irish MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. In November 2017, Taylor attracted criticism for describing then-Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Leo Varadkar as ‘the Indian’
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John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC, is a former Ulster Unionist Party Northern Irish MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. On 25 February 1972, he survived an assassination attempt in Armagh by the Official Irish Republican Army. In November 2017, Taylor attracted criticism for describing then-Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Leo Varadkar as \”the Indian\”. In January 2012, Taylor wrote to The Scotsman newspaper asserting that Scotland should be subject to partition, depending on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.
He owns Alpha Newspapers which operates local newspaper titles in Northern Ireland and the Republic. He married Mary Todd in 1970 and has six children. He remains the only active politician to have participated in all levels of government in Northern. Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventions and the current incarnation of the Assembly. Taylor is a member. of the Farmers Club in London, and the County Club inArmagh City.
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