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Varadkar departs stage with some successes but far too many failures

Fundamentally, Fine Gael under Leo Varadkar lost touch with its base, and he has allowed his party to become confused as to what it actually stands for

Leo Varadkar’s tenure leading the country also coincided with the greatest shake-up of the international tax system in recent history

Leo Varadkar’s ‘shock’ resignation at the age of just 45 effectively brings the curtain down on a career which promised so much for so long, but ultimately ended in serious disappointment.

An electoral failure, Varadkar never delivered on his pledge to deliver success to his ‘second family’ in Fine Gael and he hands over a party in materially worse shape than when he took it over.

However, as he sought to stress during a somewhat ...