{"id":164695,"date":"2022-10-02T17:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=164695"},"modified":"2022-10-02T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:27:41","slug":"minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brexiteer Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker tells Conservative Conference he used the Queen&#8217;s funeral to APOLOGISE to Irish politicians about the way the UK handled Brexit discussions as he seeks to rebuild relations with Dublin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steve Baker told the Conservative Party Conference he said sorry at funeral<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Said there had been a lack of &#8216;respect&#8217; during years of talks that harmed relations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Told Birmingham conference\u00a0relations with Ireland &#8216;not where they should be&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior minister used the Queen&#8217;s state funeral to apologise to Irish politicians about the way the UK handled Brexit, he revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Baker told the Conservative Party Conference he said sorry to Dublin politicians for a lack of &#8216;respect&#8217; during the years of talks, when they were in London last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baker, a Northern Ireland minister, is a hardline Leave supporter who resigned as Brexit minister in 2018 in protest at Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He spent the rest of the protracted period before the UK quit the EU as a senior critic on the backbenches.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to the Birmingham conference today he said &#8216;relations with Ireland are not where they should be&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s with humility that I want to accept and acknowledge that I and others did not always behave in a way that encouraged Ireland and the European Union to trust us to accept they have legitimate interests &#8211; legitimate interests that we are willing to accept, because they do and we are willing to accept them,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/10\/02\/17\/63028727-0-image-a-1_1664729792040.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Steve Baker told the Conservative Party Conference he said sorry to Dublin politicians for a lack of &#8216;respect&#8217; during the years of talks, when they were in London last month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/10\/02\/17\/63028729-0-image-a-2_1664729795121.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mr baker with Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney at the Service of Reflection for Queen Elizabeth II at St Anne&#8217;s Cathedral in Belfast last month<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And I am sorry about that, because relations with Ireland are not where they should be and we all need to work extremely hard to improve them and I know that we are doing so.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added that after raising the issue with Dublin ministers at the funeral\u00a0he felt &#8216;the ice thawing a little bit&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he also added that &#8216;no one should doubt our resolve to make progress on the (Northern Ireland) protocol&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attempt at d\u00e9tente comes after the new &#8216;special relationship&#8217; had a tricky start last month. Ahead of talks with Liz Truss in New York US president\u00a0Joe Biden sent a &#8216;candid&#8217; message about his &#8216;personal&#8217; feelings on the Northern Ireland Brexit row.<\/p>\n<p>The PM and US president sat down for their first talks at the UN general assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Aides said the discussions went on for 75 minutes rather than the hour scheduled, and there was a united front on Ukraine and the response to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>However, the leaders appear to have had an awkward exchange over Northern Ireland, with US officials describing the conversation as &#8216;candid&#8217; &#8211; usually code that there was not agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Biden is said to have stressed the &#8216;personal importance&#8217; he sets on resolving the spat over the province and protecting the Good Friday Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Ms Truss filled in the US president on her talks with EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen &#8211; and has signalled she wants to settle the issues within six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The premier is targeting getting the Northern Ireland Executive back up and running in time for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Easter.<\/p>\n<p>That could also coincide with a state visit to the UK by Mr Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11272659\/Minister-Steve-Baker-says-used-Queens-funeral-APOLOGISE-Irish-politicians-Brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexiteer Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker tells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minister used Queen&amp;apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister used Queen&amp;apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brexiteer Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker tells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pre Coin News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Minister-used-Queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-Ireland-about-Brexit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/\",\"name\":\"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0e9920e03d3b41c7ad02a18375d76a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/category\/world-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/\",\"name\":\"Pre Coin News\",\"description\":\"precoinnews.com\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0e9920e03d3b41c7ad02a18375d76a\",\"name\":\"mediabest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5f13cb3b94fc348d515c0951f6ca073?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5f13cb3b94fc348d515c0951f6ca073?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mediabest\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News","og_description":"Brexiteer Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker tells","og_url":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/","og_site_name":"Pre Coin News","article_published_time":"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00","author":"mediabest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Minister-used-Queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-Ireland-about-Brexit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mediabest","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/","url":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/","name":"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit - Pre Coin News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-02T17:27:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0e9920e03d3b41c7ad02a18375d76a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/minister-used-queens-funeral-to-say-sorry-to-ireland-about-brexit\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World News","item":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/category\/world-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Minister used Queen&apos;s funeral to say sorry to Ireland about Brexit"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/","name":"Pre Coin News","description":"precoinnews.com","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0e9920e03d3b41c7ad02a18375d76a","name":"mediabest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5f13cb3b94fc348d515c0951f6ca073?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5f13cb3b94fc348d515c0951f6ca073?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mediabest"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}