Theresa May must call the DUP’s bluff – this EU deal has to happen | Simon Jenkins

A minority party has humiliated the British government by wielding a veto over the Irish border. May needs to garner all-party support to push through this deal

Fudge is good only if it tastes sweet. Theresa May’s deal with the EU on Irish border trade is apparently too bitter for Ulster’s Democratic Unionist party to stomach. Yesterday they wielded a veto. A British government at an international summit was humiliated by a minority party pursuing a minority point of view. It is why government...