What is Peter Robinson?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter David Robinson | caption = Peter Robinson is the First Minister of Northern Ireland | image = Peter Robinson at Titanic Belfast (Cropped).jpg | office = [[First Minister of Northern Ireland]] | term_start = 5 June 2008 | term_end = 11 January 2016 | alongside = [[Martin McGuinness]] | predecessor = [[Ian Paisley]] | successor = [[Arlene Foster]] | birth_place = {{Birth date and age|1948|12|29}} }} '''Peter David Robinson''' (born 29 December, 1948 in [[Belfast]]) is a politician of [[Northern Ireland]], who was the [[First Minister of Northern Ireland]] and leader of the [[Democratic Unionist Party]] (DUP). <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/|title=The Northern Ireland Assembly|website=www.niassembly.gov.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-07-03}}</ref> == Career == He was elected the [[Member of Parliament]] for the [[constituency]] of Belfast East during the 1979 General Election and was elected to the [[Northern Ireland Assembly|Northern Ireland assembly]] in 1998. He was the Minister for Regional Development from November 1999 to July 2000 and again from October 2001 to October 2002. Robinson was Minister of Finance and Personnel from May 2007 to June 2008. On 31 May 2008 the leader of the DUP [[Ian Paisley]] resigned and Peter Robinson was chose to replace him as First Minister and DUP leader. In January 2010, it was revealed that Peter Robinson's wife [[Iris Robinson]], who was also an MP, had had an [[affair]] and attempted [[suicide]] in 2008 whilst she was a member of the British and Northern Irish parliaments. This scandal may have caused Peter Robinson to lose his Belfast East parliamentary seat at the [[United Kingdom general election, 2010|2010 General Election]]. == References == {{Reflist}}{{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Peter}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Democratic Unionist Party MPs]] [[Category:Leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Democra