Ireland’s Taoiseach Simon Harris calls general election for this month

Ireland will go to the polls in a general election this month, Simon Harris has announced.

The taoiseach said the election will be held on 29 November, formally kicking off a truncated campaign which will last mere weeks.

Mr Harris was appointed Irish prime minister – the youngest in the country’s history – after Leo Varadkar’s shock resignation in March.

He will travel to Aras an Uachtarain on Friday, the official residence of the Irish president, to seek the dissolution of Ireland’s Dail parliament.

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