When Conservative MPs tabled a no confidence vote against Theresa May last month, the Prime Minister had to make a number of big promises in order to survive it. She pledged not to fight the next election, to find a legally binding solution to the Irish backstop – and to get the DUP back on side. This afternoon we were offered a reminder of how difficult it will be for May to keep that last promise.
Following a lunchtime meeting with May, the DUP’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds issued a statement making clear that his party’s ‘principled objections’ to the withdrawal agreement have not been resolved. He said that the proposed deal ‘flies in the face of the government’s commitments on Northern Ireland as we leave the EU’. However, Dodds did add that his party would continue to work with the government in the days and weeks to come.
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