The appointment follows claims that Ms Truss, who earlier formally became Prime Minister, had been 'struggling' to fill the Secretary of State post.
Chris Heaton-Harris has been appointed by Prime Minster Liz Truss as the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a government minister has said.
He was previously Minister of State for Europe, assisting Ms Truss as Foreign Secretary on discussions over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol. She was responding after a local Tory member asked: "Are you just going to give us another fly-in, fly-out, absentee political landlord?" He sent his best wishes to the new Prime Minister and said he looked forward to supporting the government from the backbenches.Last week, Mr Vara warned he would have to call a snap Assembly election at the end of October if devolved government in Northern Ireland was not restored.
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