Johnson Has a Big Brexit Problem: His Northern Irish Friends
- DUP leader Arlene Foster’s room to compromise is shrinking
- Resolving the Irish border will be crucial to any Brexit deal
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s hopes of a Brexit deal are likely to depend on him not only persuading the European Union to compromise, but his Northern Irish allies too. They are under growing pressure to do anything but that.
The Democratic Unionist Party, once a fringe grouping notorious for the sectarian rhetoric of its former leader Ian Paisley, accounts for just 10 members of Parliament in Westminster. Yet its influence is now far bigger.