[2] However, he was elected to that body in 1984 in an uncontested by-election in Belfast South caused by the IRA murder of Edgar Graham.
[1] At the 1987 UK general election, he stood in Belfast West, receiving 18.7% of the votes cast.
[4] The same year, he worked with UUP MP Harold McCusker and the DUP's Peter Robinson to produce a report on power sharing, following a positive report on the topic by the Ulster Political Research Group.
The Task Force Report gave serious consideration to the idea, and called for a strategic unionist rethink in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
[5] Millar subsequently became a journalist and has long been the London Editor of the Irish Times.