Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, is in trouble in Saturday's voting. He may have won Brexit, but with voters frustrated over a housing crisis, he is facing every politician’s curse of being a status quo figure in a change election. nyti.ms
Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed on the draft text of a Brexit deal with the EU. The opposition Labour Party leader called on members of Parliament to reject the deal and Northern Ireland's D.U.P. said it did not support the agreement. nyti.ms
Ireland's prime minister, an impassioned opponent of Brexit, noted that rather than putting up a new wall, the Irish were trying to prevent an old barrier from going back up — in the form of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the southern Republic nyti.ms