_. The life peerage recently awarded to former DUP MP Nigel Dodds has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Dodds of Duncairn, of Duncairn in the City of Belfast.
Nigel Alexander Dodds, PC, OBE (born 20 August 1958) is a Northern Ireland barrister and unionist politician. Dodds became North Belfast's MP in the 2001 UK general election and served in that role until he was succeeded by Sinn Féin's John Finucane in 2019. He has served in the past as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and as Minister of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive. He has been deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since June 2008. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP.
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