Ken Maginnis

Ken Maginnis

Kenneth Wiggins Maginnis is a Northern Irish politician and life peer. Since December 2020, he has been suspended from the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1983 to 2001.

About Ken Maginnis in brief

Summary Ken MaginnisKenneth Wiggins Maginnis is a Northern Irish politician and life peer. Since December 2020, he has been suspended from the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1983 to 2001. He courted controversy by equating homosexuality with bestiality in an interview in June 2012. He is one of only three MPs in the Ulster Unionist Party’s history not to have been a member of the Orange Order. He has been banned from Parliament for a minimum of 18 months amid accusations of bullying and harassment against four different complainants, including SNP MP Hannah Bardell and Environment Secretary Luke Pollard.

He also received a heavy fine after having refused to pay the heavy fine for having wrong ticket for a train journey between Gatwick Airport and London. In 2012, he said he was opposed to gay marriage because it was ‘unnatural’ and he did not believe society should ‘have imposed on it something that is unnatural’