General election - Timing is wrong

Considering that the latest opinion polls are showing Fine Gael has made electoral gains in the opinion polls, it must have been a great temptation for Taoiseach and party leader Leo Varadkar to hold a general election before Christmas.

The time of the election would, in many ways, have been predicated on what is happening in London, amid the acknowledgement that he and Tánaiste Simon Coveney have played a blinder in Brexit negotiations.