Explainer: Who Simon Harris is aiming to recruit to his backroom team, and why

With less than two weeks until Simon Harris is set to be elected taoiseach by the Dáil, the new Fine Gael leader is busy building a new team of political advisers and backroom experts whose job it will be to not only provide counsel but steady the ship in the coalition’s last year in government.

Whereas his predecessor Leo Varadkar had a large team of policy advisers and communications experts around him, Harris is expected ...