Next few months will reveal if Leo is man of substance or just style

After  a summer of wetsuit posing, efforts to expand his appeal through social media and going unrecognised by Irish students on their J1 visa Taoiseach Leo Varadkar now gets down to the real business of running the country, writes Alison O’Connor.

HIS opponents would have us believe he is an inveterate poseur, torn between self-adoration and what they dismiss as derisory efforts to woo voters from outside the traditional Fine Gael base. Even his supporters have been getting ever so slightly worried about him overdoing the slick, spin-over-substance persona.

The reality is that it is too soon to tell. The rubber will really hit the road for our new Taoiseach over the next few weeks, and it is only by Christmas that we will have a true sense of what kind of a leader Leo Varadkar makes.