Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin met with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on 19 September 2026 in Manchester, marking Martin as the first international leader to visit Burnham's Number 10 North office. Talks covered the Good Friday Agreement, Stormont reform, border-poll rules, trade, Europe, Ukraine, and Gaza.
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Martin will be the first international leader to visit Number 10 North, the government said ahead of the talks.
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They concentrated on the deliverables. For Andy Burnham and Micheál Martin that meant the immediacy and importance of the occasion - the first international leader to visit Number 10 North, the new Prime Minister's big statement on shifting power out of Westminster was the Taoiseach. Symbolic.