Theresa May’s DUP deal could put confidence back into provincial Britain | Simon Jenkins

If the prime minister can borrow for Ulster for two years in government, then she must now extend her largess to the rest of the union

Can anything rescue Theresa May’s reputation from this week’s DUP fiasco? There is not the remotest public interest in political blackmail and bribery, in grinding self-interest, in the dollop of £540 a head to Ulster voters who are already subsidy addicts. It merely tells us what two years in No 10 costs these days: a billion pounds of other peo...