Mishandling drags on and on: Maria Bailey affair far from settled

HAD the Maria Bailey affair been dealt with as it should have been it would, in time, warrant a half a sentence in this administration’s history.

Had Taoiseach Leo Varadkar shown a scintilla of the ruthlessness Boris Johnson displayed to remake the Tory cabinet then a line, as Mr Varadkar must wish, would have been rightly drawn under the affair. Not so.