Kevin Meagher: Theresa May’s DUP love-in won’t last

For May and Foster it makes sense to keep their arrangement low key

I vividly recall the early hours following the 2010 British general election. I was sitting in Shaun Woodward’s constituency office in St Helens slumped in a broken swivel chair, trying to get someone else’s computer to boot up so I could run the rule over the DUP’s manifesto.

It was 4am. The drubbing Labour had been expecting in these, the dog days of Gordon Brown’s government wasn’t quite as severe as predicted. There ...