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- The UK Unionist Party (UKUP) was a small unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008. It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney, formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party, to contest a by-election the North Down by-election, 1995 and then further constituted to contest the 1996 elections for the Northern Ireland Forum. McCartney had previously contested the 1987 general election as an independent using the label Real Unionist. Ideologically, the UK Unionist Party was an integrationist party which, unlike most Northern Irish unionist parties, believed that Northern Ireland should be governed from London with no regional home rule government and parliament. The UKUP was outspoken in its opposition to the Republic of Ireland possessing any participative role in the governance of Northern Ireland. It was also highly critical of the British Labour government of Tony Blair for allowing Sinn Féin to participate in the Northern Irish government prior to the IRA fully disarming. The party also opposed the re-organising of policing in Northern Ireland, which saw the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) being replaced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The party secured a particular coup in 1996 when it was joined by Conor Cruise O'Brien, a former government minister in the Republic of Ireland. O'Brien's hostility to militant republicanism was well known, and the adherence of such a prominent supporter from the south helped reinforce the UKUP's claims to be a non-sectarian Unionist party. However, O'Brien later resigned after publishing an extract from his book Memoir: My Life and Themes in which he called on Unionists to consider the benefits of a United Ireland. McCartney and O'Brien, along with Cedric Wilson, won seats on the 1996 Forum. The UKUP (and the Democratic Unionist Party) refused to accept US Senator George Mitchell as chairman of the multi-party talks and tried to obstruct him in the undertaking of his tasks. In July 1996, the UKUP withdrew from the multi-party talks in protest at the way in which the stand off at the Orange Order parade at Drumcree was handled. When Sinn Féin entered the talks in September 1997, the UKUP and the DUP left them in protest. At the 1997 General Election, McCartney was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for North Down. The party opposed the April 1998 Belfast Agreement and campaigned against the establishment of a Northern Ireland Assembly, in which they were unsuccessful. It did contest the election for the Assembly, however, and won five seats. In 1998, the party underwent a lot of internal turmoil. O'Brien published an article in which he called for unionists to consider and embrace the idea of a United Ireland - something that was anathema to most in the UKUP. He subsequently resigned altogether from the party. Then in December the party split over the issue of Sinn Féin taking up its seats in the power sharing executive without prior Provisional Irish Republican Army decommissioning of weapons. McCartney proposed that if this should happen, the five UKUP members should resign their seats in protest, but this was opposed by the other assembly members. At a party meeting at which the other four were absent, McCartney censured his Assembly colleagues over this split. The two sides both argued that they had the support of the grassroots members of the party. On 5 January 1999, all four left the UKUP to form the Northern Ireland Unionist Party, leaving McCartney as the sole UKUP representative in the assembly. At the 2001 General Election, McCartney lost his seat in the House of Commons to the Ulster Unionist Party. In the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2003, he was only narrowly re-elected to the Assembly. The party, like most other small parties, suffered a substantial decline in the election, holding only one seat. The rival Northern Ireland Unionist Party created by breakaway Members of the Legislative Assembly, lost all of its seats. In the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, the UKUP fielded candidates in thirteen of Northern Ireland's eighteen constituencies, but failed to win any seats. Leader McCartney personally stood in six constituencies and former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA George Ennis also stood on the UKUP ticket. The party stood on a platform opposing plans by the DUP to enter into devolved government with Sinn Féin after the election and on other issues including rates, water charges and education. The UKUP was seen as the main channel for DUP members disaffected with plans to share power with Sinn Féin. In local elections held at the same time as the Assembly elections of 2007, the party lost all of its elected councillors, leaving it without elected representatives at any level in Northern Ireland. Their leader Robert McCartney announced his retirement from politics following the loss of his assembly seat in North Down to Brian Wilson of the Green Party. As of September 2008, the UKUP is no longer listed as a registered party in the Northern Ireland Register of Political Parties maintained by the UK Electoral Commission.
- Partit Unionista del Regne Unit (anglès UK Unionist Party) fou un petit partit polític d'Irlanda del Nord fundat el 1995 per Robert McCartney, antic membre del Partit Unionista de l'Ulster, per a presentar-se a les locals de North Down i que es presentaria a les Eleccions per al Fòrum d'Irlanda del Nord de 1996. Ja s'havia presentat a les eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1987 com a Real Unionist. En realitat és un partit ‘’integracionista’’, ja que creu que Irlanda del Nord ha de ser governada directament des de Londres sense cap mena d'autogovern. Per aquest motiu es va oposar a qualsevol acord amb la República d'Irlanda i criticà que Tony Blair mantingués converses amb el Sinn Féin sense desarmament previ de l'IRA, i també s'oposà a la transformació del RUC en el Servei de Policia d'Irlanda del Nord. El 1996 assoliren campanada quan se’ls va unir Conor Cruise O'Brien, antic ministre d'Irlanda oposat ferotgement al republicanisme, i oferiren imatge de partit no sectari. Tanmateix, O'Brien va dimitir després que es publiqués el seu llibre de memòries, on intentava convèncer als unionistes dels avantatges d'una Irlanda Unida. A les eleccions de 1996 va assolir tres escons (per a McCartney, O’Brien i Cedric Wilson). Junt amb l'UDP es va oposar a acceptar la mediació del senador dels EUA George Mitchell, i intentaren obstruir-les. També s'aixecaren de la taula per protestar per la forma en que s'aturà la marxa de l'Orde d'Orange a Dumcree (juliol de 1996). I quan el Sinn Féin fou convidat a seure-hi, l'abandonaren. A les eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1997 McCartney va mantenir el seu escó i s'oposaren a la nova Assemblea d'Irlanda del Nord, tot i que a les eleccions generals d'Irlanda del Nord de 1998 hi van obtenir 5 escons. Però el 1998 O'Brien va dimitir per l'escàndol de la publicació de les seves memòries; i Mc Cartney es quedà sol quan proposà abandonar l'Assemblea en cas que el Sinn Féin continués a l'Assemblea sense que l'IRA deixés les armes. Els altres 4 diputats fundaren el Partit Unionista d'Irlanda del Nord (NIUP) el gener 1999. Així, a les eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 2001 van perdre el seu escó. I a les eleccions generals Irlanda del Nord de 2007 tampoc va obtenir cap escó, tot i obtenir suport de dissidents del DUP, oposata a la idea de governar amb el Sinn Féin. Després del resultats, Mc Cartney es retirà i el partit es va dissoldre el 2008.
- Birleşik Krallık Birlik Partisi ya da UKUP. Kuzey İrlanda'da siyasi parti. Parti Robert McCartney tarafından kurulmuştur. Parti Kuzey İrlanda'nın Londra'dan direkt olarak yönetilmesini desteklemektedir. 2007 seçimlerinde % 1,5 oy oranıyla yalnızca 1 sandalye kazanabilmişlerdir.
- 英國統一黨（UPUP）是一個活動於北愛爾蘭的英國小型政黨。黨揆為Robert McCartney MLA，建立於1995年。
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