From Vara to VAR: BBCJayneMcC looks at the background of Northern Ireland's new Secretary of State, Chris Heaton-Harris (chhcalling), a qualified football referee who may need to keep the red cards handy when it comes to Stormont Reshuffle
Chris Heaton-Harris is the new man in as Northern Ireland Secretary.
The MP for Daventry since 2010, Mr Heaton-Harris has most recently been the government's chief whip - coincidentally a role also held by Julian Smith before he became secretary of state in 2019.For six years he chaired the Eurosceptic group of Conservative MPs - the European Research Group .That part of his political resume may be well received by the Democratic Unionist Party , who support Brexit, but may make anti-Brexit parties at Stormont uneasy.
He also voted for the government's bill aimed at overriding much of the protocol during all its stages in the Commons.
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