Elaine Loughlin: Peter Burke is waiting in the wings to become future Fine Gael leader

The Westmeath man is now one of the most significant threats to Simon Harris’s leadership, writes Elaine Loughlin 

Newly appointed Cabinet members, Minister for Further Education, Patrick O'Donovan TD, and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment Peter Burke, centre.

UNHEARD of outside the Leinster House bubble before his elevation to Cabinet this week, many will have been asking who exactly is new Enterprise Minister Peter Burke?

Quietly effective and not afraid “to call out bullshit”, as one party member put it, the Westmeath man is now one of the most significant threats to Simon Harris’s leadership.