Stephen Goss: Chris Bryant means more of the same for Northern Ireland
Dr Stephen Goss is a freelance historian, lectures in history and politics in London, and is a Conservative councillor in Reading. When Andy Burnham reshuffled the Cabinet on his first day as Prime Minister, an eye-catching casualty was the mild-mannered, widely respected, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Hilary Benn’s removal was confirmed within hours of Burnham’s appointment, and it blindsided observers on both sides of the Irish Sea.
- ▪Dr Stephen Goss is a freelance historian, lectures in history and politics in London, and is a Conservative councillor in Reading.
- ▪When Andy Burnham reshuffled the Cabinet on his first day as Prime Minister, an eye-catching casualty was the mild-mannered, widely respected, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- ▪Hilary Benn’s removal was confirmed within hours of Burnham’s appointment, and it blindsided observers on both sides of the Irish Sea.
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Dr Stephen Goss is a freelance historian, lectures in history and politics in London, and is a Conservative councillor in Reading. When Andy Burnham reshuffled the Cabinet on his first day as Prime Minister, an eye-catching casualty was the mild-mannered, widely respected, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Hilary Benn’s removal was confirmed within hours of Burnham’s appointment, and it blindsided observers on both sides of the Irish Sea. Only weeks earlier he had begun a fresh ‘programme of work’ with the Treasury and the Stormont parties over the Executive’s funding crisis, and this month he had been publicly urging Stormont’s politicians to finally agree a multi-year budget. Benn’s two years in the role were a period of comparative stability.
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