{"id":703227,"date":"2026-07-21T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:02:14","slug":"sir-chris-bryant-appointed-as-new-ni-secretary-under-andy-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703227\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Chris Bryant appointed as new NI secretary under Andy Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Chris Bryant has been appointed secretary of state for Northern Ireland, following Andy Burnham&#8217;s Cabinet reshuffle as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MP for Rhondda and Ogmore has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2j8ynx7qeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replaced Hilary Benn<\/a>, who was appointed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is Sir Chris&#8217;s first cabinet position, although he held a number of shadow frontbench roles under Sir Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benn said he wished Sir Chris &#8220;all the very best in working with the executive to protect stability, continuing to generate growth and investment and in taking forward the Troubles Bill&#8221;. He pledged to support Burnham from the back benches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There may be some surprise at Benn&#8217;s exit from government as he had just started talks with the Stormont parties and treasury officials in a bid to agree a multi-year budget after months of stalemate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now his successor will have to finish that process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Chris Bryant has been appointed secretary of state for Northern Ireland, following Andy Burnham&#8217;s Cabinet reshuffle as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}