By James Simonsa-
The Conservatives have this morning reached an agreement with the Democratic Unionists Party(DUP) in an alliance to support Theresa May’s minority government.
The deal comes follows last month’s election outcome of a hung Parliament. The deal took two weeks to thrash out between both parties.
The DUP’s 10 MPs will back the Tories in key Commons votes, s the Queen’s Speech being the first as from next week.
The talks focused on financial support for Northern Ireland and Brexit.
The DUP and the UK government have agreed to improve the treatment of military veterans in Northern Ireland . Previous claims that The had sought £2bn in extra funding for Northern Ireland in return for their support has been denied by them. Former UK prime minister, John Major, warned last week that the deal could undermine the Northern Ireland peace process if any favoritism resulted from the deal. However, the Conservative government promised to look into that issue to avoid any backlash.
Theresa May shook hands with DUP leader Arlene Foster as she and senior party figures finalized the deal at Downing Street on Monday to finalise the pact.
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The “confidence and supply” arrangement will see the DUP support the government in key votes, such as on the Queen’s Speech and Budgets, A DUP spokesperson told The eye of media.com that it wold not interfere on other ”legislative issues The union between May and Te Dup came after the prime minister was nine seats short of an overall majority after the snap election.
The support of the DUP gives Theresa May a working majority of 13, given that Sinn Fein do not take up their seven seats and Speaker John Bercow and his three deputies – two of whom are Labour MPs – do not take part in votes.
Several senior Tories had advised her to govern without any formal agreement with the DUP, arguing the unionist party would not be prepared to bring Mrs May down and run the risk of triggering a fresh election given their longstanding hostility to Jeremy Corbyn and other senior Labour figures. The DUP are on the other side of the fence to the government on abortion rights and same sex marriage. However, they have agreed Those differences will not affect their political relationship as they focus on the agreed issues of governance.
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