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- Politics
- Belfast Telegraph
Nigel, the great unifier? What Varadkar is saying is that Farage is a political bogeyman
Ex-Taoiseach Varadkar should know all about a politician that is largely unpopular with one side, after all, he is just the same, writes Lindy McDowell
Nigel Farage, the great unifier? The man to bring about a united Ireland in which centrist unionists would feel relatively more comfortable than in a UK run by a bloke with a ballot box in one hand and a pint of bitter in the other?
This is the, shall we say, imaginative suggestion coming from former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar who outlined his thinking twice this week — first on BBC NI's The View and then in conversation with Rev Karen Sethuraman at the Ireland's Future discussion event as part of Féile. He argues that if Farage were to become UK PM it would 'change the picture in terms of attitudes towards independence in Scotland.'
