Andy Allen

Andy Allen MLA is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party.

He is an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East. He was co-opted to replace Michael Copeland, who had resigned his seat due to health reasons.

He is a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and was left a double above knee amputee and partially blind as a result of a Taliban Improvised Explosive Device (I.E.D) attack in Helmand.

He featured in the BAFTA winning documentary, Wounded. The documentary followed his journey from being injured in Afghanistan, which was caught on camera by one of his colleagues to his admisssion to Sellyoak Hospital in Birmingham, and his overall recovery.

He is the founder of AA Veterans Support a charity setup to provide support to service personnel,veterans and their families in Northern Ireland.

In May 2016 he successfully contested the Northern Ireland Assembly seat in Belfast East, increasing the Ulster Unionist vote.