– Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar met for talks at Thornton Manor in Merseyside
– Is an unlikely venue for talks having previously been home to celebrity weddings
– Appears however that it resulted in ‚a pathway to a deal‘, the pair said afterwards
– Following the meeting the pound soared over the hope of a Brexit breakthrough
Archiv: Leo Varadkar
Read in Full: Boris’s New Negotiation Position
Boris has finally presented his detailed proposals to abolish the Backstop in a letter to the EU. The ERG and DUP are behind the proposals, now over to Varadkar…
Read the proposals in full below…
It’s not anti-Irish to criticize Leo Varadkar
I don’t need an academic study to tell me Brexit threatens all that. As someone who physically embodies the binding blood and cultural ties between Britain and Ireland, I’m regularly attacked in the Irish media for having voted to leave.
Sky’s FrEUdian Slip
Sky News was mistakenly accurate today when it described Leo Varadkar as ‘Angela Merkel’s Prime Minister’. A handy reminder of where EU power really lies…
Merkel plans talks with Ireland as EU positions itself for a no-deal Brexit
The German chancellor is to hold talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Thursday and demand a plan to protect Ireland’s border should the U.K. crash out of the bloc without a deal, which could come as soon as April 12. The EU now sees this as a serious possibility and is focusing almost all of its work on how to contain the consequences, EU officials said.