Varadkar, who is due to succeed Micheál Martin as taoiseach later this year, said he found it “shocking and hard to accept” that Downing Street sought unilaterally to change the protocol.
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BrexitEconomy
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How Great Leaders Use Emotional Intelligence to Beat the Psychology of Inflation
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