Brandon Lewis

A spat has erupted on social media on Wednesday after an Alliance Party MLA made a jibe about the former Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.

Mr Lewis was appointed Secretary of State by Boris Johnson in February 2020, before he resigned earlier this summer in the midst of the downfall of Mr Johnson. In 2020, Mr Lewis admitted legislation altering the Northern Ireland protocol would “break international law in a very specific and limited way”. Mr Lewis was appointed as the new Secretary of State for Justice as part of Liz Truss’s new government and cabinet which she appointed earlier in the week.