Neale Richmond

And when it was a regularity, it was a good thing.

So to have the UK in the EU would make it a much stronger, much more powerful force when we're looking at a world where the US and China are the competing interests.

Oh, it was toxic.

I remember getting into an Uber in London and the driver turned around to me and goes like, what's your problem?

what are the Irish people's problems?

Why can't you just respect us?

And, like, I was an absolute nobody, but he had just seen my face in the Express.

He used to do attack pieces on Leo Radcar and throw me in it.

Thankfully, at a government level, relations are really, really good.

And that didn't start necessarily with Keir Starmer.

I will have to give credit to Rishi Sunak.

Rishi Sunak, when he came back in with the absolute...

craziness was the 40-hour days of the Liz Truss premiership.

He said, no, no, this can't go on anymore.

Let's settle things.

Let's make the Windsor framework work.

Let's get things back to normal.

We've been very lucky that we've had British ambassadors over the years, British officials who've maintained that relationship and allowed things to settle.

We look at Northern Ireland, horrible scenes there a couple of days ago for sure, but it is working the assemblies back up.

It's back to being a bit more routine, even if we're facing into the July marching season.