David Burnside, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Burnside

British politician

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1951

Place of Birth: Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

David Wilson Boyd Burnside (born 24 August 1951) is a Northern Ireland politician, and was Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for South Antrim. In the 1970s Burnside served as Press Officer for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, and he unsuccessfully contested North Antrim for the party at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
After the collapse of Vanguard he joined the Ulster Unionist Party, standing unsuccessfully in the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly but then took a back seat from politics for many years while working as a prominent public relations consultant based in London which led him to set up his own PR company.
He also served in the Ulster Defence Regiment.Since 2015 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group chaired by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, which seeks a new constitutional settlement in the UK.
The Constitution Reform Group’s Act of Union Bill 2018 was introduced as a Private Member's Bill by Lord Lisvane in the House of Lords on 9 October 2018, when it received a formal first reading.
The Bill is currently awaiting a date for its second reading.