Starmer to begin reset of EU relations in meetings with Irish and French PMs

Prime minister to hold bilateral talks next week on sidelines of gathering of European leaders at Blenheim Palace

Keir Starmer is to kickstart the resetting of the UK's relationship with the EU with bilateral meetings next week with the prime ministers of Ireland of France, two of the country's most important neighbours.

He will meet the taoiseach, Simon Harris, at Chequers on Wednesday on the eve of the fourth meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), a conference of more then 45 EU and non-EU prime ministers, which takes this place this year at Blenheim Palace near Oxford.