{"id":5145,"date":"2024-03-20T18:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/whats-behind-leo-varadkars-shock-resignation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:42:48","slug":"whats-behind-leo-varadkars-shock-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/whats-behind-leo-varadkars-shock-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind Leo Varadkar&#8217;s shock resignation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/2372403200639297507_6496021.png?20240320155236&amp;fit=70,70&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"What&#8217;s behind Leo Varadkar&#8217;s shock resignation?\" title=\"What&#8217;s behind Leo Varadkar&#8217;s shock resignation?\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The resignation of Ireland&#8217;s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has come as a shock. <\/p>\n<p>He suffered defeats in two referendums earlier this month, where the public voted against the government&#8217;s plans to remove &#8220;sexist&#8221; language from the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Ireland correspondent Stephen Murphy to look at Mr Varadkar&#8217;s legacy as both the youngest and openly gay Taoiseach.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, in Wales, history has also been made as Vaughan Gething was sworn in as first minister &#8211; the first black leader of a European country. He narrowly won the Welsh Labour leadership election against Jeremy Miles, with 51.7% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Questions over some of his campaign donations from a company run by a man twice convicted for environmental offences, and Conservative criticism over Welsh Labour&#8217;s budget spending, give Mr Gething plenty to defend and tackle in his first weeks in office.<\/p>\n<p>Niall explores what&#8217;s in the new Welsh first minister&#8217;s in-tray with Tomos Evans, our Wales reporter. Richard Wyn Jones, director of the Wales Governance Centre and dean of public affairs at Cardiff University, also talks about Mr Gething.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Producer: Rosie Gillott<br \/>Assistant producer: Iona Brunker<br \/>Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles<br \/>Editor: Wendy Parker<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resignation of Ireland&#8217;s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has come as a shock. He suffered defeats in two referendums earlier this month, where the public voted against the government&#8217;s plans to remove &#8220;sexist&#8221; language from the constitution. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Ireland correspondent Stephen Murphy to look at Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/2372403200639297507_6496021.png?20240320155236","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[8358,2625,8625,8624,300],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}