Varadkar ‘partitioned’ UK by pushing border in Brexit talks

TUV leader Jim Allister has accused former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of “partitioning” the UK during the Brexit negotiations by insisting “on the border being pushed where the IRA could never push it”.

Mr Allister warned against “nice, fuzzy sentiment” between the UK and Ireland, saying relations between the two countries included “malevolence to the detriment of Northern Ireland”.

As leader of party Fine Gael, Mr Varadkar held the post of taoiseach from 2017 until 2020, returning to the role in 2022 before resigning in 2024.

He played a key role in the Brexit negotiations, with a famous meeting with then-prime minister Boris Johnson at a manor house on the Wirral in England seen as a significant moment in paving a way for the deal on the UK’s exit from the EU.

The agreement staved off the prospect of a hard trade border being introduced on the island of Ireland, but it did prompt years of further…

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