Unification could fall off agenda ‘for a long time’ if poll defeated – Varadkar

Mr Varadkar said that although independence is still being discussed in Scotland following a vote against it in 2014, he questioned whether support in favour of constitutional change was any more likely there than before.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said a unification poll might fail (Damien Storan/PA)

Leo Varadkar has said that Irish unification could fall off the agenda for a long time if a border poll was held and defeated.

The Taoiseach said that the same had happened in places such as republican Australia and Quebec in Canada, and said that if it was held and failed, it would cause further division in Northern Ireland.