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Leo Varadkar: will thank Sweden and Denmark ‘for their ongoing solidarity with Ireland’. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Good morning.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar begins a two-day trip to Scandinavia today, during which he will meet Swedish PM Stefan Löfven in Stockholm today and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen tomorrow.