Taoiseach expresses confidence Brexit deal can be sealed before March
Varadkar renews offer to Italian PM to take 600 migrants once security clearance agreed
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Chigi Palace in Rome on Thursday. Photograph: EPA
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has expressed confidence in the wake of his visit to three European capitals that a Brexit withdrawal agreement can be reached by October and ratified before March.
Mr Varadkar was speaking in Rome after meeting Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte on the final day of his European Union whistle-stop tour.