UK-Ireland summit: Taoiseach promises help as Starmer seeks trade reset with EU
Keir Starmer and Micheál Martin are leading talks at a major UK-Ireland summit in Liverpool
The UK and Ireland are opening the “next chapter” in their relationship, Mr Starmer said, as ministers from the two nations discussed plans to increase co-operation.
The Taoiseach and the prime minister were in Liverpool with senior ministers from both governments.
Mr Starmer said: “We are having this summit, we are embarking on the next chapter for our two countries, binding them ever closer together in circumstances where we’re living in an ever more volatile world.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a business roundtable at Liverpool docks, in the first in a new series of annual UK-Ireland Summits taking place in Britain. Phil Noble/PA Wire
“I think that a reset, bringing our countries closer together, is the obvious and right thing to do in any event.”
As well as closer ties with Ireland, Mr Starmer is hoping to improve the trading relationship with the European Union and…
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