UUP (Ulster Unionist Party)

Burrows was speaking in his first interview since it emerged that he is the only candidate in the running to replace Mike Nesbitt.

Nominations have closed and current deputy leader Robbie Butler has announced his decision not to run.

Like Mike Nesbitt before him, former PSNI officer Jon Burrows is a relative newcomer to politics.

There is no hiding the disquiet among some Ulster Unionist MLAs about being led by a colleague they barely know.

The North Antrim assembly member Jon Burrows is in the running to become the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

Burrows, a former senior police officer, made the announcement at Stormont on Thursday.

Mike Nesbitt announced last week that he would step down from his second stint as leader of the party.