Varadkar must improve on his thin policy record

Leo Varadkar is the new leader of Fine Gael and the presumptive next Taoiseach. Already, Ireland is being feted for Varadkar’s election. It’s not that surprising. Varadkar is young, he’s openly gay, and he is not – like every one of his predecessors – white. That’s an historic and alluring combination of factors that seem to reject diametrically the electoral urges recently seen in Britain, France, and the US.

Closer to home, however, ...