Bill Clinton meets Theresa May for Northern Ireland crisis talks
The former US president played a key role in helping to secure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of conflict.
Thursday 19 October 2017 12:10, UK
Former US president Bill Clinton has met Theresa May in Downing Street for talks on the political crisis in Northern Ireland.
He smiled and waved at photographers before the nearly hour-long meeting, pausing to shake hands with a policeman outside Number 10.
He and Mrs May were expected to talk about a deadlock between Sinn Fein and the DUP, which has left Stormont leaderless since January.
Mr Clinton was a powerful broker behind the Good Friday Agreement that put an end to decades of bloody internal conflict.
He emerged from the meeting on Thursday to tell reporters: "We had a wonderful talk."
Pushed on his reaction to the progress of Brexit, Mr Clinton added: "We didn't talk much about that. I don't have much of a portfolio here."
Earlier in the week he also met privately with DUP leader Arlene Foster, and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and assembly leader Michelle O'Neill.
The deadlock between the two parties shows no signs of improvement, with Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire warning on Wednesday that chances of a solution were "not positive".
Mr Clinton was accompanied on the UK trip by Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady and US Secretary of State.
She is promoting her new book, What happened, on losing to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.