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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said many of the Government’s preparations for a no-deal Brexit would be stood down if the House of Commons votes to approve the new agreement. File photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
‘Pound is still pound, queen is still queen’, Taoiseach tells unionists

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has sought to reassure unionists that the constitutional position of Northern Ireland is unaffected by the new Brexit agreement(...)

A worker holds a chunk of raw cobalt after a first transformation at a plant in Lubumbashi before being exported, mainly to China, to be refined. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Cobalt’s supply shock a painful warning to electric carmakers
  • Motors
  • November 14, 2018, 01:00

Cobalt is a niche commodity that seemed to have finally found its place in the batteries powering the electric car revolution. But, despite rising sal(...)