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By Thomas Penny

June 14, 2017 at 11:19 AM UTC

Updated on

June 14, 2017 at 3:38 PM UTC

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The U.K. slipped further into political limbo as Prime Minister Theresa May’s talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionists dragged on and calls mounted for a cross-party consensus on Brexit.