Profile: Theresa Villiers Stormont’s invisible woman

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Age:47

Appearance: aristocratic, aloof

Newsworthiness: the Northern Ireland Secretary of State is under fire following her comments that the IRA’s continued existence should not be a surprise to most people

The roll-call of recent Northern Ireland Secretaries of State contains some famous British political names: Mo Mowlam, Douglas Hurd, Willie Whitelaw, Peter Mandelson. Future historians are unlikely to mention Theresa Villiers in the same breath, but the current incumbent of Hillsborough Castle ...