Mr Harris said he was eager to work with new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Irish premier Simon Harris has said the next generation will “never forgive us” if the opportunity to reset Anglo-Irish relations is not seized following Labour’s landslide victory in the UK General Election.
He said: “At the end of the day, we’re neighbours, we’re friends, in many cases we’re family as well, and there’s an opportunity now, a real opportunity that we must seize and that the next generation will never forgive us for if we don’t, to press reset, to say yes it’s been a difficult few years, but you know what? We have so much more in common than divides us.
“It used to be that whoever the Irish Taoiseach and British Prime Minister was would meet regularly through their membership of the European Union. They’d meet on the fringes of European meetings. Those structures obviously aren’t there now. I respect that fact. But we do need to look for new ways of making sure that regular engagement happens.”
He said: “Obviously, Brexit did make life challenging and challenging in relation to the relationship between the two islands and also, I suppose, changed that in many ways because no longer will be two countries within the European Union. We’ve also had a situation where up until recently, there was a vacuum in Northern Ireland in terms of the institutions not functioning.
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