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Beattie was born in 1965 in a military base in Hampshire; his father was a warrant officer in the Royal Ulster Rifles, a regiment of the British Army. The family returned to Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, when he was 10 following the ending of his father's regular service. The family moved into a house in Union Street, in the ...
Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie, who served in Afghanistan with the Army, made the appeal as scores attempted to flee the Taliban. Stormont Executive urged to provide homes for Afghans who ...
Following the closure of nominations, Nesbitt held a press conference in which he paid tribute to the outgoing leader, Doug Beattie, stating that whenever he became leader last time Beattie’s name “was the first on the list of the people I wanted to attract into the party”. [36]
Steve Aiken resigned on 8 May 2021, and Doug Beattie was elected as leader on 17 May 2021. [50] Beattie, a former soldier, is perceived as a progressive unionist, and it was predicted that following his election as leader, the party would reclaim some of the centre ground that they had lost to the Alliance Party. [51]
UUP leader Doug Beattie laid a bouquet of flowers below a portrait of Lord Trimble in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings.
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Nesbitt was appointed as the Ulster Unionist Party's Economy spokesperson by Doug Beattie, and was briefly the private secretary to the Health Minister, Robin Swann, in preparation for him succeeding Swann. [4] [5] Following Beattie's resignation as UUP leader on 19 August 2024, Nesbitt launched a successful campaign to succeed him. [2]
Mr Beattie quit the leader’s job on Monday following a bitter row with party officers.