''As Britain woke on Friday morning to discover that Theresa May had
flushed her Commons majority down the drain, people found themselves
having to learn about an unfamiliar party on which May (or her
successor) would be relying to get anything done. The titles of the
hastily commissioned primers – ‘So, Who Are The DUP?’; ‘Who are the Democratic Unionists and what do they want?’
– told their own story. The Democratic Unionist Party is Northern
Ireland’s largest political force and was until recently the principal
coalition partner in one of the UK’s devolved governments. But most of
the time, what happens in Belfast or Derry is deemed irrelevant to
political life on the other side of the Irish Sea..''
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