place_of_birth mervyn storey
The House ___MASK26___ Commons ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom is the lower house ___MASK26___ the country ' s parliament . Like the upper house , the House ___MASK26___ Lords , it meets in the Palace ___MASK26___ ___MASK48___ . Officially , the full name ___MASK26___ the house is : The Honourable the Commons ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom ___MASK26___ Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled . A political party is a group ___MASK26___ people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government . The party agrees on some proposed policies and programmes , with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters ' interests . Cllr Mervyn Storey MLA is a ___MASK21___ politician and a Democratic Unionist Party MLA for North Antrim . Storey was Minister for Social Development in the ___MASK21___ Executive ( 2014 -- 16 ) , and in 2016 was appointed Minister for Finance & Personnel . Ian Richard Kyle ___MASK51___ , Baron Bannside , PC ( 6 April 1926  12 September 2014 ) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland . The Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) is the largest unionist political party in ___MASK21___ . Founded by Ian ___MASK51___ and now led by Arlene Foster , it is the largest party in the ___MASK21___ Assembly and the fifth - largest party in the House ___MASK26___ Commons ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom . ___MASK21___ (; ___MASK87___ Scots : "") is a top - level constituent unit ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom in the northeast ___MASK26___ Ireland . It is variously described as a country , province , region , or " part " ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom , amongst other terms . ___MASK21___ shares a border to the south and west with the Republic ___MASK26___ Ireland . In 2011 , its population was 1 , 810 , 863 , constituting about 30 % ___MASK26___ the island ' s total population and about 3 % ___MASK26___ the UK ' s population . Established by the ___MASK21___ Act 1998 as part ___MASK26___ the Good Friday Agreement , the ___MASK21___ Assembly holds responsibility for a range ___MASK26___ devolved policy matters , while other areas are reserved for the British government . ___MASK21___ co - operates with the Republic ___MASK26___ Ireland in some areas , and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to " put forward views and proposals " with " determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments ". Arlene Isabel ___MASK95___ , PC , ( née Kelly ; born 3 July 1970 ) is a Northern Irish politician who has been the Leader ___MASK26___ the Democratic Unionist Party since December 2015 . She also served as the First Minister ___MASK26___ Northern Ireland from January 2016 until her involvement in the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal caused Martin McGuinness to resign from the post ___MASK26___ deputy First Minister in protest in January 2017 . Under the terms ___MASK26___ the Northern Ireland power - sharing agreement , ___MASK95___ is not permitted to remain in office as First Minister without a Deputy First Minister . His resignation caused a snap election to be held . The ___MASK21___ Assembly ( ___MASK87___ Scots : " Norlin Airlan Assemblie ") is the devolved legislature ___MASK26___ ___MASK21___ . It has power to legislate in a wide range ___MASK26___ areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament ___MASK26___ the United Kingdom , and to appoint the ___MASK21___ Executive . It sits at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in ___MASK71___ .