Paul Hosford: Taoiseach's hope for Anglo-Irish relationship to be put to the test

The shape of the neighbourly relationship has been scarred for the best part of a decade by not just Britain’s vote to leave the EU, but by a stream of indifference or hostility, writes Paul Hosford

Taoiseach Simon Harris spoke of his hope for Britain’s future relationship with Ireland, after Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won the British general election by a landslide earlier in the week. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A great reset.

That is how Taoiseach Simon Harris characterised his hopes for the Anglo-Irish relationship, in the wake of Keir Starmer’s Labour landslide washing away 14 years of Tory rule.