The Taoiseach Simon Harris spoke to the new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer by phone.
The Taoiseach told his Fine Gael party in a private meeting on Wednesday that he was making plans to seek an early engagement with the new British government."We both agreed on the call that it is so important that we now have a reset moment in Anglo-Irish relations and that both he and I would lead on that," Mr Harris said.
Speaking before the UK general election, Mr Harris said he did not want to foreshadow who would be successful but was keen to hit the ground running. The taoiseach told TDs and senators it was timely to seek “early engagement to discuss close, good relationships, between Ireland and the UK, in a post-Brexit environment".The relationship between Dublin and London was strained at times during Brexit negotiationsThere has previously been tension at times between London and Dublin in recent years.
Earlier this year, the Irish government complained of a significant spike in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland from Northern Ireland.Sir Keir Starmer is the first Labour leader to oust a sitting Conservative government since Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
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