How Fine Gael’s cappuccino candidate trumped his Complan rival

Regardless of who wins the election today, the real winner in all of this has been the

He put in the hard yards over the past year. In some quarters of Fine Gael it would appear that eagerness and readiness are somehow gauche and ill-mannered.

But when, as expected, Leo Varadkar wins the crown of the Fine Gael leadership this evening, it will have been the result of hard work and hunger, and that of a well organised and serious campaign team.