irish taoiseach micheal martin said his country will help sir keir starmer do anything to reset the uk's relationship with the european union. the prime minister has met with the taoiseach as part of the first annual summit between the two nations, with sir keir starmer saying the uk and ireland are opening the next chapter in their relationship. the leaders were in the north west with senior government members to discuss defence and the economy. minister for industry sarah jones spoke to gb news earlier ahead of the meeting. >> i think the role that keir starmer is playing as the honest broker with our eu allies, with our us allies who are so important and working with ukraine, supporting president zelenskyy, making sure we get a peace through strength. so the summit today is important. it's important for the economy. we're announcing investment that will deliver 2500 jobs, which is good news for the uk. we're also announcing further work together on clean energy that we were just talking about. but look, security of course will be front and centre. and the taoiseach is meeting trump ne

irish taoiseach micheal martin said his country will help sir keir starmer do anything to reset the uk'selationship with the european union. the prime minister has met with the taoiseach as part of the first annual summit between the two nations, with sir keir starmer saying the uk and ireland are opening the next chapter in their relationship. the leaders were in the north west with senior government members to discuss defence and the economy, with the irish premier adding a short while ago that the summit was very positive. and a gb news exclusive. now another 200 small boat migrants made it to the uk today, the sixth straight day of illegal crossings in a week. the latest arrivals take the total number of channel migrants to reach uk waters since saturday to 1578. that now means 3634 have reached the uk since the 1st of january. those are the latest gb news headlines. now let's go back to martin. >> thank you katie. now here's today's big question. question is reform uk on the rocks. well that's what the conservative party are claiming today after rupert lowe mp reform rupa mp rupert