Tom Elliott was first elected as an MLA in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 2003.
Former Ulster Unionist Party leaderTom Elliott, is to be made a life peer in the prime minister's dissolution honours list.
Other appointees include former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady, Labour MP Harriet Harman, and former President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales Minette Batters.“I feel this is recognition to the people of Fermanagh & South Tyrone and Northern Ireland," he said.Who is Tom Elliott?
He was MP for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency between 2015-2017, and UUP party leader from 2010-2012. He was a soldier in the Ulster Defence Regiment from 1982-1992 and its successor, the Royal Irish Regiment, from 1992-1999.The House of Lords is independent from the House of Commons - where Members of Parliament debate and vote on new laws.
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