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Irish PM: UK must appoint new PM as quickly as possible

Published by Uma Rajagopal

Posted on October 21, 2022

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· Last updated: February 3, 2026

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Irish PM Micheal Martin at EU summit discussing UK's need for new Prime Minister - Global Banking & Finance Review
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin speaks at a European Union summit, emphasizing the need for the UK to appoint a new Prime Minister swiftly for political and financial stability amid pressing geopolitical challenges.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain must appoint a new Prime Minister to succeed Liz Truss as “quickly as possible” to ensure stability within the broader political and financial spectrums, said Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, as he arrived at a European Union summit. “I think stability is very important and we would like to see the […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain must appoint a new Prime Minister to succeed Liz Truss as “quickly as possible” to ensure stability within the broader political and financial spectrums, said Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, as he arrived at a European Union summit.

“I think stability is very important and we would like to see the UK system within its capacity to have a successor selected as quickly as possible and that stability would be brought to the situation given the fairly significant geopolitical issues facing Europe, not least the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis,” he told reporters in Brussels.

(Reporting by Marine Strauss; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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