Light on substance but Leo Varadkar does look the part

Taking questions for some 40 minutes at his policy launch yesterday, Leo Varadkar looks cut from a different cloth to the incumbent leader, writes Alison O’Connor.

After the first few days of a seemingly runaway campaign, it was more than time to see what lay beneath the Lycra in Leo Varadkar’s campaign. What exactly would he do if he becomes our next taoiseach?

So his policy launch yesterday was timely, given that most of the optics the day before had been given over to the leadership hopeful revealing his apparent vitality in a 5km race on Dublin City streets.