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    Gavin Robinson

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    The Right Honourable
    Gavin Robinson
    MP
    Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    29 March 2024
    Preceded byJeffrey Donaldson
    Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    9 June 2023
    LeaderJeffrey Donaldson
    Preceded byPaula Bradley
    Member of Parliament
    for Belfast East
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    7 May 2015
    Preceded byNaomi Long
    Majority1,819 (4.3%)
    69th Lord Mayor of Belfast
    In office
    1 June 2012 – 1 June 2013
    DeputyTierna Cunningham
    Preceded byNiall Ó Donnghaile
    Succeeded byMáirtín Ó Muilleoir
    Member of the Belfast City Council
    In office
    2011–2015
    Preceded bySammy Wilson
    Succeeded byBrian Kennedy
    ConstituencyPottinger (2011–2014)
    Titanic (2014–2015)
    Personal details
    Born
    Gavin James Robinson[1]

    (1984-11-22) 22 November 1984 (age 39)
    Belfast, Northern Ireland
    NationalityBritish
    Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party
    SpouseLindsay
    Children1
    Alma materUlster University
    ProfessionBarrister

    Gavin James Robinson (born 22 November 1984) is a Northern Irish unionist politician and barrister, serving as interim Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since March 2024[2] and previously as Deputy Leader since June 2023, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast East in the UK House of Commons since the 2015 general election. He was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2012–2013.[3] Robinson is the DUP Spokesperson for Defence and Home Affairs.[4]

    Career[edit]

    Robinson is a lifelong East Belfast resident. He attended Grosvenor Grammar School in East Belfast, and then University of Ulster where he obtained a degree in law and government, before attending Queen's University Belfast, where he attained a Masters in Irish Politics before commencing practice as a barrister. Raised a Presbyterian, he currently attends the Church of Ireland.[citation needed] He is married. Gavin Robinson is unrelated to former DUP leader and Belfast East MP Peter Robinson.[5]

    Robinson was co-opted to Belfast City Council in March 2010 to replace Sammy Wilson in representing the Pottinger electoral area of South and East Belfast.[6] He was returned to the council as an alderman in the 2011 local elections and elected Lord Mayor by the council for the year beginning 1 June 2012. He was a member of the East Belfast District Policing and Community Safety Partnership subgroup and represented the council on the boards of the Ulster Orchestra and the 2013 World Police and Fire Games held in Belfast.

    He won the constituency of Belfast East for the Democratic Unionist Party, defeating the incumbent Naomi Long of the Alliance Party, to become a Member of Parliament in the 2015 UK General Election.

    In March 2019, Robinson was one of 21 MPs who voted against LGBT-inclusive sex and relationship education in English schools.[7][8][9]

    In June 2023, he was elected by Democratic Unionist Party MLAs and MPs to become the party's Deputy Leader, succeeding Paula Bradley.

    He was sworn into His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 28 March 2024 as part of the 2024 Special Honours[10]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015. p. 9128.
    2. ^ "DUP Statement". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
    3. ^ "BBC News – DUP's Gavin Robinson is new Lord Mayor of Belfast". BBC News. June 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
    4. ^ "Gavin Robinson MP". DUP. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
    5. ^ "Four Northern Ireland constituencies to watch". RTÉ. 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2017. Gavin Robinson (no relation of Peter's)
    6. ^ Staff. "Robinson is new Belfast Lord Mayor". Newsletter.co.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
    7. ^ Butterworth, Benjamin (28 March 2019). "MPS vote to back LGBT inclusive relationship education from age 5". Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
    8. ^ Barlett, Nicola (28 March 2019). "21 MPS who voted against teaching kids about gay families". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
    9. ^ "Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019 - CommonsVotes". Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
    10. ^ "Privy Council appointment: March 2024" (PDF). GOV.UK. 28 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

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    Civic offices
    Preceded by
    Niall Ó Donnghaile
    		 Lord Mayor of Belfast
    2012–2013     		Succeeded by
    Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Naomi Long
    		 Member of Parliament
    for Belfast East
    2015–present     		Incumbent
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