Governments need to work with common strategy on Stormont return – Varadkar
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The British and Irish governments need to work with a common strategy to exert pressure for the return of the Stormont Assembly, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. He said: “We’re still working as best we can with the British Government and the five main parties to have the Assembly and executive up and running in the autumn. “I’m continuing to say to our UK counterparts that the right way forward is an agreed strategy, hand in glove, hand in hand approach between the British and Irish governments, because that’s when Northern Ireland works best, when the British and Irish governments work together, and are honest brokers, and don’t particularly take the side of nationalism or the side of unionists, and I would like us to get back to that point.” The Taoiseach said he would like to see the Stormont institutions up and running before an investment conference planned for Belfast in September and a British Irish Council meeting in Dublin in November. “I think that would be a real shame.” Mr Varadkar said the Irish Government was not party to discussions taking place between the Westminster government and the DUP over post-Brexit trading concerns.
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