Varadkar set to meet Johnson as 'very wide' gaps remain

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is expected to meet Boris Johnson on the margins of a United Nations meeting in New York next week.

Speaking at the National Ploughing Championship in Co Carlow, Mr Varadkar said the gap between Britain and the European Union over Brexit remains "wide". Overheard at the Ploughing – Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he is to meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York next week 'and try and get a deal' | Read more: https://t.co/cM0DJ0R0sV pic.twitter.com/X7D0RFVy9Z Last night in Dublin, Mr Varadkar held a 45-minute meeting with DUP leader Arlene Foster.

"Let me just introduce a dose of reality here, there is a significant gap between what the British government have been talking about in terms of their approach and what the EU is able to accept in the context of trying to get a deal here and that gap needs to close here with credible written proposals from the British side," he said.

Speaking at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Carlow, he said: "What I detect is a growing sense all round that we’re all going to be sharing the same island for quite some time to come and there needs to be sensible talking and sensible dialogue and sensible working out the Brexit situation, particularly of the exit deal."

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