Leo Varadkar
Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 2024. · Ireland · On the map · Politicians · Born 1979 · age 47
Leo Eric Varadkar is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024, as Tánaiste from 2020 to 2022, and as leader of Fine Gael from 2017 to 2024.
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Health Minister Varadkar with Tánaiste Joan Burton at the opening of a unit at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, July 2014
Varadkar and US president Donald Trump in Shannon, Ireland in June 2019
Varadkar beside his coalition partners Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan in December 2022
Varadkar on Saint Patrick's Day at the White House, in 2024
Varadkar with U.S. president Joe Biden on St Patrick's Day in 2023
Varadkar alongside Jüri Ratas, the prime minister of Estonia, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, in 2017In their own words 1
, The EU is not a prison - nobody has to stay, but it’s also a home and we’re not going to kick anybody out either.
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A TD for the Dublin West constituency from 2007 to 2024, he held a range of other ministerial positions from 2011 to 2024. Described as centre-right economically, he advocated free markets, lower taxes, and welfare reform. On social issues, he supported successful constitutional referendums to legalise same-sex marriage and to liberalise Ireland's abortion laws.
