[2] He worked with David Brewster and Dean Godson on the UUP's "Strand I" team at the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement.
[1] King did not stand in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and became known as an opponent of the Good Friday Agreement, acting as a spokesman for the anti-agreement Union First group.
[4] King was suggested as a possible UUP candidate in the 2000 South Antrim by-election,[5] but the party instead stood David Burnside.
In 2001, he was part of a group of anti-agreement UUP members who met with John de Chastelain of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.
[8] In 2014 he found that the evidence against three people was insufficient for them to be sent for trial by jury in relation to the Death of Robert Hamill[9]