John McGahon (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

For the last two years, the British-Irish relationship has been at its lowest ever ebb. I hope that with a new Prime Minister will come a new fostering of that relationship. As soon as a new Prime Minister is appointed, we should have a debate in this House about how to bring that relationship up from rock bottom to a workable one. We can look at Boris Johnson and others as some sort of Shakespearean tragedy. At the minute, he is like King Lear wandering lost in the storm, cursing the loss of his kingdom. It is Nixonesque but even Nixon knew when it was time to go. This is the danger of electing populist demagogues like Johnson and Trump. These are people who think governing is a God-given right rather than it being a privilege to serve the country one is elected by.