Irish Examiner View: Labour start as they mean to go on

British prime minister Keir Starmer with Edwin Poots, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, at Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast, on Monday. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, has moved fast in his attempts to reset relations within Britain, with Ireland, and with the rest of Europe.

Mr Starmer was in Northern Ireland yesterday, a day after his new point-man in Belfast, Hillary Benn, made his presence felt there by pressing the reset button politically and announcing that the Casement Park stadium project would go ahead.