Varadkar should have made his Irish unity calls while still Taoiseach – UUP
Leo Varadkar should have called on all parties to make a pledge on Irish unity while he was Taoiseach if he really believes in it, according to the former UUP leader. Speaking ahead of a speech to the SDLP’s New Ireland Commission in Derry today, Deputy Varadkar said every party running for the next Dáil should make Irish unity “an objective, not an aspiration” in their manifestos. He said all parties should back the establishment of a New Ireland Forum to plan for unification and called for nationalists to consider new ideas – including having a president and a vice-president, where one of the offices would have to be held by a British citizen. In his interview with The Irish Times, he also suggested that in a United Ireland, the Dáil could sit at Stormont at times and the Cabinet could be enlarged to include a guaranteed number of British citizens. Credit to : Newstalk