AHC: Northern Irish PM

Your challenge, should you accept it, with a PoD of the partitioning of Ireland into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1922, is to elect / appoint any politician, from any political party, into the Parliament of Northern Ireland (if before 1973), or into any of the successive Northern Ireland Assembies (if after), then (with any number of required intervening steps) into the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

If this is too difficult, the challenge may also be fulfilled simply by the individual in question being born and raised in Northern Ireland and having held some position of political power there prior to becoming the British PM.
 
There's a part in John Major's memoirs where he says he thought David Trimble to be a good potential successor as Prime Minister. Obviously that choice wasn't his to make, and would probably have required a full reunion of their two parties, so its far from the most plausible option. It struck me when I read it as one of those throwaway bits of speculation that was never really considered seriously.

Incidentally Lord Trimble is now a member of the Conservative Party.
 
Somewhat difficult given the percieved 'parochial' nature of Ulster politics as seen by the main British political body and the distinctive issues it has.

Maybe have Edward Carson pull it off someone in the early days?

Maybe Colonel Tim Collins decides to go into politics?
 
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