Varadkar: Britain and EU will do trade deal even with a hard Brexit

Leo Varadkar at this weekend’s Fine Gael ard fheis: explicitly ruled out coalition with Sinn FéinPatrick Browne

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Britain and the EU will negotiate a free trade agreement even if there is a hard Brexit in the coming weeks.

The Fine Gael leader said that in all circumstances efforts would be made to negotiate a free trade agreement with Britain post-Brexit. “In any scenario, obviously at some point we will try to negotiate a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU,” he told ...