“Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.”

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About Leo Varadkar

Irish former Fine Gael politician

Leo Varadkar is an Irish former Fine Gael politician. Born in 1979, he served as Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2022 to 2024, and led Fine Gael from 2017 to 2024. He was a TD for Dublin West from 2007 to 2024 and held several ministerial posts from 2011 to 2024. Politically, he was seen as economically centre-right, backing free markets, lower taxes, and welfare reform. He also supported the constitutional changes that legalised same-sex marriage and liberalised Ireland’s abortion laws.

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