‘No FF coalition after 2018 election’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has made it known to his senior ministers that he does not favour a grand coalition with Fianna Fáil after the next election, which he believes will be in 2018.

Fine Gael ministers are to meet tomorrow to begin discussion on what several have accepted will be their final budget before going to the polls next year.

As a result, the party is adamant that it outlines three years of expected revenue and spending as a means of disguising how little money is available this year, but also to “box the opposition” into its agenda.