Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I wonder, in between all of that, did the Taoiseach have time to ask Mrs. May what at this point is probably the biggest question on the lips of most of the population in Britain, that is, is she going to resign? I wonder if they had time to discuss the outcome of the election in Britain. Increasingly, what we saw in the election was an endorsement of left and socialist policies and I thought the Taoiseach might have an interest in that. We saw the biggest vote for a left-Labour candidate since 1945, mainly motivated by young people, by women and by traditional Labour voters who returned after the Blairites. Clearly Brexit was greeted negatively, particularly by some Members in this House last year. It was branded as being right wing and racist, but how then do these Members explain this vote which was completely the opposite? It puts it in perspective. UKIP lost all its seats and, as I stated, there was the biggest left vote since 1945.

The Taoiseach has been talking a lot about populism and so have some of his Ministers.

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