Naomi Long

Born in east Belfast, Long attended Mersey Street Primary and Bloomfield Collegiate School.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/2017/12/04/news/alliance-party-leader-lids-lid-on-silent-illness-she-kept-hidden-for-20-years-in-the-hope-of-helping-others-1202110/ |title=Alliance Party leader Naomi Long lifts lid on illness she hid for 20 years, in hope of helping others |last1=Graham |first1=Seanín |date=4 Dec 2017 |newspaper=The Irish News |location=Belfast |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706162958/https://www.irishnews.com/news/2017/12/04/news/alliance-party-leader-lids-lid-on-silent-illness-she-kept-hidden-for-20-years-in-the-hope-of-helping-others-1202110/ |archive-date=6 July 2018 |url-status=live }} She graduated from Queen's University of Belfast with a degree in civil engineering in 1994, worked in a structural engineering consultancy for two years, held a research and training post at Queen's University for three years, and then went back into environmental and hydraulic engineering consultancy for four years.{{cite web |url=http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs_03/long_n.htm |title=Biography: Naomi Long |date=10 September 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040910074750/http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs_03/long_n.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 September 2004 |access-date=27 April 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allianceparty.org/pages/people-LONG-Naomi.html |title=Naomi LONG (The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) |date=11 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111202022/http://www.allianceparty.org/pages/people-LONG-Naomi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 January 2006 |access-date=27 April 2018}}

Long first took political office in 2001 when she was elected to Belfast City Council{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108687383 |title=The honourable ladies. Volume 2, Profiles of women MPs 1997-2019 |first1=Iain |last1=Dale |author-link1=Iain Dale |first2=Jacqui |last2=Smith |author-link2=Jacqui Smith |date=10 September 2019 |isbn=978-1-78590-245-1 |publisher=Biteback Publishing |location=London |oclc=1108687383 |access-date=26 October 2020 |archive-date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515033725/https://www.worldcat.org/title/honourable-ladies-volume-ii-profiles-of-women-mps-1997-2019/oclc/1108687383 |url-status=live }} for the Victoria ward. In 2003 Long was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East, succeeding her fellow party member John Alderdice. In 2006 she was named deputy leader of her party. In 2007 she more than doubled the party's vote in the constituency, being placed second ahead of the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. The overall UUP vote, however, was 22%. At 18.8%, her vote share was higher than that for Alderdice in 1998.

On 1 June 2009, she was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast, defeating William Humphrey (Democratic Unionist Party) by 26 votes to 24 in a vote at a council meeting. She became the second woman to hold the post, after Grace Bannister (1981–82).{{cite web |url=http://www.u.tv/News/Naomi-Long-elected-Belfast-Mayor/925a47af-e0fe-435b-accc-fe3e15c02328 |title=Naomi Long elected Belfast Mayor |date=1 June 2009 |website=UTV |access-date=2017-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608211501/http://u.tv/News/Naomi-Long-elected-Belfast-Mayor/925a47af-e0fe-435b-accc-fe3e15c02328 |archive-date=8 June 2009 |url-status=live }}

On 6 May 2010, Long defeated Peter Robinson, First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the DUP, to become Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast East in the House of Commons.{{cite web |url=http://insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/naomilong001/category/1084 |title=Inside Ireland |date=31 July 2012 |access-date=27 April 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731194617/http://insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/naomilong001/category/1084 |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 July 2012}} She became the first MP elected to Westminster for the Alliance Party{{Cite web |title=Naomi Long MEP |url=https://www.allianceparty.org/our_mep |access-date=2020-10-26 |website=Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |language=en |archive-date=29 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029083054/https://www.allianceparty.org/our_mep |url-status=live }} (previously, Stratton Mills, a former Ulster Unionist Party MP, had changed parties to Alliance). Long also became the first Liberal-affiliated MP elected to Westminster in Northern Ireland since James Brown Dougherty in Londonderry City in 1914. Despite the close relationship between the Alliance Party and the Liberal Democrats, Long did not sit with the coalition government nor take the coalition whip{{cite web |url=http://ianjamesparsley.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/alliance-must-clarify-precise-relationship-with-libdems |title=Alliance must clarify precise relationship with LibDems |first=Ian |last=Parsley |author-link=Ian Parsley |date=12 December 2010 |access-date=16 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718100648/http://ianjamesparsley.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/alliance-must-clarify-precise-relationship-with-libdems/ |archive-date=18 July 2011}} and was not a member of the Liberal Democrats.{{cite web |url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-12-09b.594.1 |title=No, I do not regret receiving the...: 9 Dec 2010: House of Commons debates |publisher=TheyWorkForYou |date=2010-12-09 |access-date=2017-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218223558/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-12-09b.594.1 |archive-date=18 February 2014 |url-status=live }}

On 10 December 2012, Long received a number of death threats and a petrol bomb was thrown inside an unmarked police car guarding her constituency office. This violence erupted as a reaction by Ulster loyalists to the decision by Alliance Party members of Belfast City Council to vote in favour of restricting the flying of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall to designated days throughout the year, which at the time constituted 18 specific days.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/10/northern-ireland-unrest-belfast-naomi-long |title=MP's office attacked in Northern Ireland |first=Henry |last=McDonald |date=10 December 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=17 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314045838/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/10/northern-ireland-unrest-belfast-naomi-long |archive-date=14 March 2016 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=27 December 2022 |title=Policy on the Flying of the Union Flag Equality Impact Assessment – Final Decision Report Appendices |url=https://minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk/documents/s34412/Flags%20EQIA%20Final%20Decision%20Report%20Appendices.pdf |access-date=27 December 2022 |website=Belfast City Council}}

In 2015, Long lost her seat in the Commons to Gavin Robinson of the DUP, as a result of a five-party unionist pact in the constituency which saw the UUP, UKIP, TUV and PUP all stand aside in favour of Robinson.{{cite web |url=http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/aeb.htm |title=East Belfast |website=Ark.ac.uk |access-date=2017-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522001226/http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/aeb.htm |archive-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=live }}

She contested the seat for Alliance at the next two elections, and was the unsuccessful Alliance PPC for Belfast East for the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

In January 2016, Long announced that she would return as an Assembly candidate in the 2016 elections having been nominated in place of incumbent Judith Cochrane.{{Cite news |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/naomi-long-returns-as-east-belfast-alliance-assembly-candidate-34405045.html |title=Naomi Long returns as East Belfast Alliance Assembly candidate|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph |issn=0307-5664 |location=Belfast |language=en |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227230646/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/naomi-long-returns-as-east-belfast-alliance-assembly-candidate-34405045.html |archive-date=27 December 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-35788340 |title=Standing down from Stormont |last=McDowell |first=Iain |date=2016-03-15 |work=BBC News |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228005030/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-35788340 |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}} She was subsequently elected on the first count with 14.7% of first-preference votes. Following her return to the Assembly, Long assumed positions on the Committee for Communities, the All Party Group on Fairtrade, the All Party Group for Housing, and chaired the All Party Group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.{{Cite web |url=http://aims.niassembly.gov.uk/mlas/details.aspx?&aff=11808&per=137&cid=12 |title=Naomi Long Biography |website=Northern Ireland Assembly |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227230457/http://aims.niassembly.gov.uk/mlas/details.aspx?&aff=11808&per=137&cid=12 |archive-date=27 December 2018 |url-status=live}}

In August 2016, Long called for Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir to stand aside as Minister of Finance during an investigation of the Stormont Finance Committee's handling of its Nama inquiry, while Ó Muilleoir was a committee member. This followed allegations that his party had "coached" loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson prior to his appearance before the committee.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-37152683 |title=Finance minister urged to 'step aside'|date=2016-08-22 |work=BBC News |access-date=2018-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228125950/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-37152683 |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}}

In November 2016, Long criticised Sinn Féin and the DUP for delaying the publication of a working group report on abortion, which recommended legislative changes in cases of fatal foetal abnormality,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38132072 |title=Report 'recommends abortion law change' |last=Devenport |first=Mark |date=2016-11-28 |work=BBC News |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228105828/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38132072 |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}} calling on the Executive "to act without further delay to help women who decide to seek a termination in these very difficult circumstances".{{Cite web |url=https://allianceparty.org/article/2016/0010809/abortion-law-needs-changed-now-says-long |title=Abortion law needs changed now, says Long |publisher=Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228035102/https://allianceparty.org/article/2016/0010809/abortion-law-needs-changed-now-says-long |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}}

On 26 October 2016, Long was elected Alliance leader unopposed following the resignation of David Ford.{{cite web |url=https://www.allianceparty.org/article/2016/0010725/naomi-long-elected-as-new-leader-of-alliance|title=Naomi Long elected as new Leader of Alliance |publisher=Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |date=2016-10-26 |access-date=2017-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028083832/https://www.allianceparty.org/article/2016/0010725/naomi-long-elected-as-new-leader-of-alliance |archive-date=28 October 2016 |url-status=live}} In the first manifesto released under her leadership, Long affirmed her commitment to building a "united, open, liberal and progressive" society. Her party's legislative priorities were revealed to include the harmonisation and strengthening of equality and anti-discrimination measures, the introduction of civil marriage equality, development of integrated education and a Northern Ireland framework to tackle climate change.{{Cite web |url=https://allianceparty.org/document/manifesto/2017-assembly-manifesto#document |title=Manifesto 2017 |publisher=Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |access-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227040709/https://allianceparty.org/document/manifesto/2017-assembly-manifesto#document |archive-date=27 December 2018 |url-status=live}}

In the 2017 Assembly election, Long topped the poll in Belfast East and was returned to the Assembly with 18.9% of first-preference votes. The election was widely viewed as a success for Alliance, with the party increasing its vote share by 2 percentage points and retaining all of its seats in a smaller Assembly. The party subsequently held the balance of power at Stormont.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/03/dup-and-sinn-fein-on-course-to-dominate-northern-ireland-assembly |title=Sinn Féin makes major gains in Northern Ireland elections |first1=Henry |last1=McDonald |first2=Jamie |last2=Grierson |date=2017-03-04 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228035125/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/03/dup-and-sinn-fein-on-course-to-dominate-northern-ireland-assembly |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/4-takeaways-from-northern-irelands-snap-election-dup-sinn-fein/ |title=4 takeaways from Northern Ireland's snap election |last=Geoghegan |first=Peter |date=2017-03-04 |website=POLITICO |access-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228034917/https://www.politico.eu/article/4-takeaways-from-northern-irelands-snap-election-dup-sinn-fein/ |archive-date=28 December 2018 |url-status=live}}

Alliance targeted two seats in South and Belfast East in the 2017 general election. During the campaign, Long reaffirmed her support for a People's Vote, marriage equality, Votes at 16 and greater transparency surrounding political donations. She also pledged to oppose any rollback of the Human Rights Act.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40109321 |title=Alliance targets two seats in election |last=Walker |first=Stephen |date=2017-05-31 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704223243/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40109321 |archive-date=4 July 2019 |url-status=live}}

Following the collapse of talks to restore devolution in February 2018, Long reiterated her view that the pay of MLAs should be cut in the absence of a functioning Executive.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43390949 |title='Cut £500 MLA pay rise', urges speaker |date=2018-03-13 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704230212/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43390949 |archive-date=4 July 2019 |url-status=live}} In March 2018, Alliance launched its 'Next Steps Forward' paper, outlining a number of proposals aimed at breaking the deadlock and Stormont.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43501474 |title=Alliance sets out plan to break deadlock |last=Devenport |first=Mark |date=2018-03-22 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706213737/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43501474|archive-date=6 July 2019|url-status=live}} At the 2019 Alliance Party Conference, she accused Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley of an "appalling dereliction of duty" over the ongoing stalemate, saying that she had made "no concerted effort to end this interminable drift despite it allegedly being her top priority".{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47427865 |title=Bradley accused of 'dereliction of duty' |last=Devenport |first=Mark |date=2019-03-02 |work=BBC News |access-date=2019-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704221739/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47427865 |archive-date=4 July 2019 |url-status=live}}

In the 2019 local elections, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation on councils. Long hailed the "incredible result" as a watershed moment for politics in Northern Ireland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-48158555 |title=Alliance hails 'breakthrough' NI election |date=2019-05-04 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507161215/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-48158555|archive-date=7 May 2019|url-status=live}}

Long was elected to the European Parliament as a representative for Northern Ireland in May 2019 with 18.5% of first-preference votes, the best ever result for Alliance.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48427839 |title=A fast count and a historic Alliance surge |last=McCormack |first=Jayne |date=28 May 2019 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706213738/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48427839 |archive-date=6 July 2019 |url-status=live}} She was subsequently replaced in the Assembly by Máire Hendron, a founding member of the party and former deputy lord mayor of Belfast.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48706812 |title=Alliance chooses new MLA to replace Long |date=2019-06-20 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706213737/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48706812 |archive-date=6 July 2019 |url-status=live}} She then replaced Hendron in the Assembly with effect from 9 January 2020.{{cite web |url=http://www.eoni.org.uk/News/New-MLA-Belfast-East-Constituency-(1) |title=New MLA - Belfast East Constituency |date=8 January 2020 |publisher=Electoral Office for Northern Ireland |access-date=11 January 2020 |archive-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111132733/http://www.eoni.org.uk/News/New-MLA-Belfast-East-Constituency-(1) |url-status=live }}

In 2019, Long became the first Northern Ireland politician to have served at every level of government.{{Cite web |last=Aston |first=Karri |date=2021-05-24 |title=The future of Northern Ireland - with Naomi Long MLA |url=https://www.cfg.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/naomi-long |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=www.cfg.polis.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Alliance of engineering and politics: Naomi Long interview |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/alliance-engineering-politics-naomi-long-interview-kenneth-l-mitchell |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=www.linkedin.com |language=en}}

In March 2022, Long told the Alliance Party Conference that "some politicians are addicted to crisis and conflict and simply not up to the job of actually governing".{{Cite news |date=2022-03-05 |title=Naomi Long: Alliance 'can end Stormont political soap operas' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-60577371 |access-date=2022-05-28}} Long led Alliance into the 2022 Assembly election on a platform of integrated education, health reform, a Green New Deal, tackling paramilitarism and reform of the Stormont institutions.{{Cite web |title=Alliance Manifesto 2022 Assembly Election |url=https://www.allianceparty.org/manifesto_homepage |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=Alliance Party |language=en}}

On 11 January 2020, following the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly after three years of stalemate, Long was elected Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Executive.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51077397|title=DUP and Sinn Féin back in top jobs at Stormont|date=2020-01-12|work=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-15|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002752/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51077397|url-status=live}} On 28 January, Long announced that she would progress new domestic abuse legislation through the Assembly which would make coercive control a criminal offence in Northern Ireland.{{Cite news |date=2020-01-28 |title=Domestic violence laws will go through Stormont, not Westminster |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51272815 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2021-04-29 |archive-date=29 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429120703/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51272815 |url-status=live }} In June 2020, Long commissioned a review into the support available for prison officers following concerns about absence rates.{{Cite news|date=2020-06-11|title=Prison officer support to be reviewed by minister|work=BBC News|language=en-GB|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53007259|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=3 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603205520/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53007259|url-status=live}} That same month, she announced her intention to introduce unexplained wealth orders in Northern Ireland to target paramilitary and criminal finances.{{Cite news |date=2020-06-18 |title=Justice minister targets criminals' assets |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53091687 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2021-04-29 |archive-date=23 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323170950/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53091687 |url-status=live }}

In November 2020, Long said she was seriously reconsidering her position within the Executive following the DUP's deployment of a cross-community vote to prevent an extension of COVID-19 regulations. She told BBC News, "I have asked people to desist from this abuse of power because it will make my position in the executive unsustainable."{{Cite news |date=2020-11-12 |title=Naomi Long 'reconsidering position' in Northern Ireland Executive |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54924610 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2020-11-13 |archive-date=13 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113062036/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54924610 |url-status=live }}

Long is a member of Bloomfield Presbyterian Church. Following the Church's decision to exclude those in same-sex relationships from being full members, she expressed "great concern" and stated that she "didn't know" if she would remain a member herself.{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Stephen |date=15 June 2018 |title=Naomi Long 'angry' at Presbyterian Church |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44497368 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227070835/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44497368 |archive-date=27 December 2018 |url-status=live |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=26 December 2018}} She is married to Michael Long, an Alliance councillor on Belfast City Council and former Lord Mayor of Belfast, and son of the engineer Professor Adrian Long. Long and her husband are the first husband and wife to have both served as Lord Mayors of Belfast.{{Cite news |last=Simpson |first=Mark |date=9 May 2022 |title=Alliance: Michael Long 'makes history' as three-week mayor |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61378427 |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509194725/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61378427 |url-status=live |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=9 May 2022}}

In August 2017, Long revealed that she had been suffering from endometriosis and would undergo surgery for the condition.{{Cite news |title=Alliance leader to undergo surgery |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40846031 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227015615/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40846031 |archive-date=27 December 2018 |url-status=live |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |date=7 August 2017 |access-date=26 December 2018}}

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