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Basil McCrea, MLA (born 13 November 1959) is a politician who is currently the Leader of NI21 and a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. ==Political career== McCrea unsuccessfully contested the 2005 UK General Election in Lagan Valley for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). He was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a UUP member for Lagan Valley. He has been a UUP Councillor on Lisburn City Council and was, until his election to the Assembly, a Party officer and spokesman for the Northern Ireland Manufacturers' Focus Group.〔(NIMFG - Northern Ireland Manufacturing Focus Group )〕 He has served as a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board and UUP spokesman on Education. He was formerly a member of the Assembly Committee for the Department for Employment and Learning. He stood for leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) against Tom Elliott in the contest after the UK 2010 General Election. He was widely seen as the candidate of the UUP's "liberal" wing, while Elliott was seen as the candidate of the "conservative" wing. He lost the election by 643 votes to 296. In 2012 McCrea attended a Sinn Fein event on 'uniting Ireland' and said unionism should not be afraid to put its case. In October 2012, he was one of three unionist assembly members to vote for gay marriage to be introduced in Northern Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.calebfoundation.org/ )〕 In February 2013, having been subjected to a UUP disciplinary process for publicly opposing a proposal for a "unionist unity" candidate in an impending Parliamentary by-election, McCrea announced that he was resigning from the UUP, stating that he disagreed with the tactic of joint working with the rival Democratic Unionist Party. He has mooted forming a new party with John McCallister, who left the UUP at the same time and over the same issue.〔"(John McCallister and Basil McCrea resign from the UUP )", ''BBC News'', 15 February 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basil McCrea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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