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Varadkar’s election gamble backfires as Sinn Fein surge

10 February 2020

5:55 AM

10 February 2020

5:55 AM

Irish election results are being counted and it seems that Leo Varadkar’s snap election gamble has worked out as badly as Theresa May’s. Support for his party, Fine Gael, has plunged and a Sinn Fein surge has changed everything. Varadkar has just made history by being the first Taoiseach to be be denied first place in his own constituency, beaten by a Sinn Fein candidate.

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