Lean on DUP to restore power sharing, Sinn Féin tells new NI secretary

Chris Heaton-Harris makes first visit to Northern Ireland to say UK aims to get Stormont running and solve problems of protocol'

Sinn Fein has urged the new Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, to lean on the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) to restore the power-sharing executive at Stormont.

Michelle O'Neill, the party's first minister-designate, told Heaton-Harris on Thursday that the British government should stop pandering" to the DUP, which has paralysed power-sharing in protest against the Northern Ireland protocol.