Labour leader Brendan Howlin has launched a series of stinging attacks on the handling by Fine Gael of the Brexit negotiations, saying that a claim that it was the only party that could have guided Ireland through amounts to “supreme arrogance”. Mr Howlin earlier addressed the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin regarding Ireland’s place in the world post-Brexit. But he reserved the majority of his ire for Fine Gael, which has campaigned predominantly in this election on the party’s handling of Brexit and the economy. “This election marks the point where cross-party unity over Brexit policy has been contaminated by party political differences,” Mr Howlin said. And the answer to that is the only people who are are the Labour Party.”

Source: Irish Examiner January 31, 2020 13:52 UTC