DUP deal to carry high price in more way than one

From the moment the exit poll was announced at 10pm on Thursday, and it was apparent that Theresa May was about to lose her Commons majority, the potential role for the Democratic Unionist Party took centre stage.

During the night, the DUP began trending on Twitter and such was the interest in the potential alliance, the party’s website crashed.

The grand irony is that while the DUP supported the decision to leave the European Union, in a perverse attempt to re-energise the UK, the fate of Northern Ireland played little or no role in the debate ahead of the Brexit referendum.