Leo Varadkar warns that Brexit, aid cuts and talk of abandoning human rights treaty ‘not the Britain I know’

Ireland’s prime minister has said he is “concerned” to see the UK “disengaging from the world”, and accused it of turning inwards by leaving the EU, slashing international aid and now considering abandoning a human rights treaty.

Leo Varadkar, speaking before a bilateral meeting with Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, in the Spanish city of Granada, he said he could barely recognise the country.

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