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Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the post would not "helps matters at all", adding "we all have a responsibility to act in a sensible way in these circumstances".

Earlier, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said Lyons should reflect on his comments, while the Green Party called for Lyons to resign.

The court has ruled that the government's refusal to hold an inquiry is unlawful, but Secretary of State Hilary Benn confirmed on Wednesday the government was planning to challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court, the UK's highest court.

She referred to her 87-year-old mother Bridie's appeal to Benn last month not to make her go to London to campaign for an inquiry.

"My mother made an impassioned plea to Hilary Benn, not to take her to London, that's fallen on deaf ears, that's the route we now have to go," Siobhan Brown added.