SHIFT IN TONE
Harris, who turned taoiseach (prime minister) in April, was the primary worldwide chief hosted by Starmer within the UK after his landslide election win in July.
The pair chatted over pints of Eire’s nationwide drink, Guinness, on the British prime minister’s nation residence, Chequers, northwest of London, earlier than a bigger assembly of European leaders.
The concentrate on “resetting” Anglo-Irish relations marks a notable shift in language after the previous few years noticed tensions rise between Dublin and London.
Britons narrowly voted to exit the European Union in a referendum in 2016 and the nation lastly left the bloc in 2020 after years of political division and stalemate.
Conservative former prime minister Boris Johnson’s onerous break from the EU was broadly seen as destabilising relations between EU member Eire and Northern Eire.
Since taking energy, Starmer has moved to start the repeal of a legislation granting conditional immunity to perpetrators of crimes throughout Northern Eire’s a long time of sectarian violence.
