Mike Pence and the Irish Prime Minister

Leo Eric Varadkar (/vəˈrædkər/; Irish: Leo de Varad^[1]; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Taoiseach, Minister for Defence and Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2007, currently for the Dublin West constituency. He previously served as Minister for Social Protection from 2016 to 2017, Minister for Health from 2014 to 2016 and Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from 2011 to 2014.^[2]

Varadkar is the first Irish government Minister of Indian heritage. During the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum, he became the first openly gay Irish government Minister.^[3] He was 38 years old, on his election as Taoiseach, becoming both the youngest person and the first from a minority ethnic background to hold the office.^[4] He is Ireland's first and the world's fourth openly gay head of government in modern times (following Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Elio Di Rupo, and Xavier Bettel).^[5]