Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit

Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit

No Irishman since Éamon de Valera has confounded the British more than the former taoiseach, Leo Varadkar. Young, gay, half Indian – the Westminster establishment could not comprehend this in an Irish leader. Where did the buckled shoes and peat-worn hands go? Didn’t Rome – the real governing force of that island – take issue with the homosexuality? Could that man in a well-cut suit really be the chosen patron of all those saints and scholars? A…