UK PM Sunak told Irish PM he was confident Northern Ireland government would be restored

The DUP announced in the early hours of Tuesday that the party had endorsed proposals agreed with London on the operation of post-Brexit trade rules that would allow it to end a near two-year boycott of the devolved government. "The prime minister said was he was confident that the steps taken paved the way for the restoration of power sharing in the Northern Ireland executive," Sunak's spokeswoman told reporters in a readout of the call.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in a phone call on Tuesday he was confident that Northern Ireland's power-sharing government could be restored soon, Sunak's spokeswoman said. The DUP announced in the early hours of Tuesday that the party had endorsed proposals agreed with London on the operation of post-Brexit trade rules that would allow it to end a near two-year boycott of the devolved government.

"The prime minister said was he was confident that the steps taken paved the way for the restoration of power sharing in the Northern Ireland executive," Sunak's spokeswoman told reporters in a readout of the call. "Both leaders agreed it was in the people of Northern Ireland's interest to have a stable, devolved government and this was also beneficial to relations between the UK and Ireland."