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Pay off: Attempts to buy off business and MPs have been less-than successful

This government has bungled every negotiation it faced and now it’s even bungling its bribes

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Tied together by weakness: Theresa May and Arlene Foster during a visit to Belleek pottery factory I Copyright: PA

Utter failure: DUP increasingly doomed despite Tory team-up

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"The risk now is that attitudes harden and even getting to the point of an outline deal becomes difficult to achieve"

Who’s to blame for the mess in N.Ireland? The buck stops with Theresa May

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The Tory-DUP deal has complicated efforts to revive power-sharing at Stormont

The government must act to rescue Northern Irish power-sharing

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The Tory-DUP deal: Precursor to Irish reunification?

The Tory-DUP deal makes a united Ireland easier to deliver

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"Any pretence of being 'strong and stable' has long gone, this is now about survival"

Week in Review: Abortion amendment shows how easily government can be hurt

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Having been on the ropes in March, Arlene Foster is now in the ascendant

What the DUP have negotiated is much smarter than many predicted

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BASC given permission to bring judicial review of Defra decision

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »

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Concern over doctors’ health needs as legislation to regulate PAs and AAs introduced

Long overdue legislation setting out the regulatory framework for physician assistants (PAs) and anaesthesia assistants (AAs) has been published today. Commenting on the legislation, Dr Michael Devlin, head of professional standards and liaison at the MDU said: “This important piece of legislation not only introduces much needed regulation for PAs and AAs, it will also be… Read more »