Fianna Fáil has a policy platform that is more in line with what Labour wants to achieve if it re-enters government than Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael, Brendan Howlin has said. In an interview with The Irish Times, the Labour leader said both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were “chameleons” who will change their polices to get into power. Mr Varadkar has privately mused about the prospect of a coalition led by Fine Gael that would include Labour, the Greens and the Social Democrats. “The amount of money we take in income tax pretty much every year is going up by about €1.2 billion,” he said. “The current version of Fianna Fáil – and that is the problem with Fianna Fáil, it is not an ideologically anchored party – certainly is closer to a social democratic model than the Leo version of Fine Gael, that’s true.

Source: The Irish Times January 07, 2019 00:56 UTC