Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's fractured relationship with unionism

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During his time in politics, Mr Varadkar had a fractured relationship with unionist parties in Northern Ireland.

Leo Varadkar, First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly meet at Stormont CastleBut for most of his tenure that's the way it was.

The DUP MP Sammy Wilson accused him of stirring up "false fears about barriers along the border" adding "his behaviour is despicable low and rotten". He later said he regretted the Northern Ireland Protocol had been "imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of both communities". Perhaps not surprisingly his relations with Sinn Fein were, if anything worse, after all they were direct competitors in the Republic.

 

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