Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets graduates from a West Midlands Police training centre in Birmingham, Britain July 26, 2019. Jack Hill/Pool via REUTERS
DUBLIN (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's failure to call his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar for almost a week after his appointment is not a calculated snub and the two are likely to engage at the earliest opportunity, an Irish minister said on Monday.
Varadkar congratulated Johnson on his election as Conservative Party leader last Tuesday in a Twitter post, but a day later said in an interview that Johnson's demand for a new EU withdrawal deal was "not in the real world".
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