Despite the apology, the incident does seem to have harmed Ireland’s youngest ever Taoiseach, with The Irish Times poll suggesting that his party Fine Gael sit on 19% – far below the 25% it polled when the election was called a fortnight ago.
This is behind fellow centre-right party Fianna Fail on 21% and Sinn Fein on 20%.
Starmer has repeatedly stated his desire to repair relations with the EU and a close working relationship with Ireland, and Harris in particular was seen as crucial to this.
The pair are believed to have developed a close relationship since Labour’s election win, with the two swapping replica football shirts earlier this year and Harris describing Starmer’s election victory as a “game changer”.
The polling compounds a tough couple of months for Starmer’s EU reset plans with another ally, Germany, plunging itself into political chaos as Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his Finance Minister, causing his three-way coalition to collapse and effectively called a general election.
It is widely expected that Scholz will lose next year’s election with no clear indications yet as to who will make up a new coalition, although the far-right party AfD could be influential in determining the new balance of power.
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