Leo Varadkar, the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, has said that he believes that Ireland will reunify within his lifetime.
Varadkar weas speaking to RTE, the Irish national broadcaster.
According to the BBC, Varadkar said to RTE: ‘I believe we are on the path to unification. I believe that there will be a united Ireland in my lifetime.’
He also said that in a united Ireland, there will be a minority of about one million people who identify as British rather than Irish, and that a country’s success is judged on how it treats its minority groups.
Most opinion polling in Northern Ireland shows that most people in the province would prefer to remain as part of the United Kingdom, rather than reunify with Ireland.
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