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Ireland’s ‘exhausted’ prime minister announces shock resignation

London | Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s barrier-breaking leader, said on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) that he would resign, days after a double referendum in which voters rejected constitutional changes his government had championed, and after years of waning public support for his political party, Fine Gael.

Mr Varadkar, the son of an Irish nurse and a doctor who was born in Mumbai, became the country’s youngest-ever leader when he was named taoiseach, or prime minister, in 2017 at the age of 38.

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