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Originally Posted by Hugh
Shouldn't think the DUP would be too impressed with that proposition.
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Given the parliamentary arithmetic, the DUP are no longer of critical importance.
If a deal of any kind comes before the Commons before 31 October, the rump of the parliamentary Tory party can be relied on to vote for it, but what everyone will really be looking at is whether Labour does. Labour has to, really; if it doesn’t, it is going to be absolutely slaughtered in northern England at the election they have now publicly accepted has to follow after 31 October comes and goes. Not many Brexit-voting natural labour voters will be persuaded by the nuances they put forward as justification for refusing to back the WA earlier this year. Labour simply has to back a deal.