Politics

Junior Minister Andrew Doyle is latest to declare for Varadkar

Supporter says Varadkar has finger on ‘the pulse of the zeitgeist’ and ‘is a thoroughbred’

Minister for Health and Fine Gael TD Simon Harris and party leadership candidate Simon Coveney at the launch of the latter’s policy document in the Dean Hotel in Dublin’s City Centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Minister for Health and Fine Gael TD Simon Harris and party leadership candidate Simon Coveney at the launch of the latter’s policy document in the Dean Hotel in Dublin’s City Centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Mon May 22 2017 - 11:20

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