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UK General Election 2017 Aftermath
Topic Started: Jun 9 2017, 02:20 PM (65 Views)
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BBC News: May to form 'government of certainty' with DUP backing
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Theresa May has said she will put together a government with the support of the Democratic Unionists to guide the UK through crucial Brexit talks.

Speaking after visiting Buckingham Palace, she said only her party had the "legitimacy" to govern, despite falling eight seats short of a majority. Later, she said she "obviously wanted a different result" and was "sorry" for colleagues who lost their seats.

But Labour said they were the "real winners". The Lib Dems said Mrs May should be "ashamed" of carrying on.

The Tories needed 326 seats to win another majority but, with 649 out of the 650 seats declared, they fell short and must rely on the DUP to continue to rule.

In a short statement outside Downing Street after an audience with the Queen, Mrs May said she would join with her DUP "friends" to "get to work" on Brexit. Referring to the "strong relationship" she had with the DUP but giving little detail of how their arrangement might work, she said she intended to form a government which could "provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country".

"Our two parties have enjoyed a strong relationship over many years," she said. "And this gives me the confidence to believe that we will be able to work together in the interests of the whole United Kingdom."

It is thought Mrs May will seek some kind of informal arrangement with the DUP that could see it "lend" its support to the Tories on a vote-by-vote basis, known as "confidence and supply".
-Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40219030
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(The Guardian) Downing Street has released a read-out of Theresa May’s phone call with Enda Kenny earlier. It is not as revealing as Kenny’s tweet about the call, but it does show that May told Kenny her approach to re-establishing the Northern Ireland executive “remained unchanged”.

Here is is in full. It’s from a Downing Street spokesperson: Prime minister Theresa May spoke on the phone to Taoiseach Enda Kenny today. The prime minister explained that she is working towards a confidence and supply deal with the DUP which would provide stability and certainty for the UK going forward.

They confirmed their joint commitment to restoring a Northern Ireland executive as soon as possible and agreed that both countries would continue to engage closely to bring about political stability in Northern Ireland. The prime minister reiterated that the government’s approach and objectives in the forthcoming talks to re-establish the Northern Ireland executive remained unchanged.

The two leaders spoke about their willingness to continue close cooperation as the UK embarks on leaving the European Union, with no return to a hard border.

The prime minister thanked Mr Kenny for helping to make UK-Ireland relations stronger than ever, wished him well for the future and said she looked forward to continuing a close relationship with his successor.
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--Also the Irish Government appear to have announced that James Brokenshire will continue as Northern Ireland Secretary in its statement (Faisal Islam, Sky News - 11 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) Gay rights campaigners, human rights activists and trade unionists will take to the streets of Belfast at Monday lunchtime to demand marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

The region is the only part of the UK where gay marriage is not recognised in law due in large part to the Democratic Unionist party vetoing legislation aimed at legalising LGBT marriages.

With the DUP courting Theresa May and the prospect of a national deal with the Tories, the Love Equality campaign will hold a protest at Belfast City Hall.

Love Equality said it was holding its demonstration in the “backdrop of negotiations to form a new UK government, with the issue of the continuing bar on equal marriage in Northern Ireland under intense scrutiny”.

The campaign group added: With a Stormont talks deadline of 29 June to decide on devolution or direct rule for Northern Ireland, campaigners will call for whichever government is in charge to deliver equal marriage legislation for Northern Ireland, in line with overwhelming public opinion in the region.

An Ipsos Mori poll in June 2016 showed 70% of the Northern Ireland public support marriage equality legislation. A significant majority of MLAs in the recently elected assembly have also expressed their support for a change in the law. The DUP has previously used the ‘petition of concern’ in the Northern Ireland assembly to block progress on equal marriage despite majority support.
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--May will face backbench 1922 committee at 5pm tomorrow. Senior Tory tells me: "she needs to give a barnstorming performance to survive". (Heather Stewart, The Guardian - 11 June 2017)

--Thanks to @theresa_may for phoning me this afternoon following the #Bath election result. Our Govt must stay united in the national interest (Ben Howlett, Fmr. Conservative MP for Bath, 11 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) Cabinet Appointments
10:52am - Damien Green, Sec. of State for the Cabinet Office
10:54am - Greg Clark, Sec. of State for Business
11:04am - David Gauke, Sec. of State for Work & Pensions
11:15am - Elizabeth Truss, Sec. to the Treasure Office
11:25am - Liam Fox, Sec. of State for International Trade
11:34am - Justine Greening, Sec. of State for Education
11:41am - Sajid Javid, Sec. of State for Communities
11:49am - David Lidington, Sec. of State for Justice
11:57am - Alun Cairns, Sec. of State for Wales
12:07pm - Jeremy Hunt, Sec. of State for Health
12:24pm - Gavin Williamson, Parliamentary Sec. to the Treasure (a/k/a Chief Whip in the Commons)
12:26pm - Chris Grayling, Sec. of State for Transport
12:29pm - Priti Patel, Sec. of State for International Development
1:33pm - James Brokenshire, Sec. of State for Northern Ireland
1:52pm - Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House of Commons
1:55pm - Karen Bradley, Sec. of State for Culture, Media & Sport
2pm - Michael Gove, Sec. of State for the Environment
2:14pm - Brandon Lewis, Minister of the Home Office
2:16pm - Jeremy Wright, U.K. Attorney General
5:09pm - David Mundell, Sec. of State for Scotland

....no other changes of note....
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(The Guardian) Evening summary, 7:01pm
--Theresa May has completed her cabinet reshuffle. The only real surprise was the return of Michael Gove who is now environment minister. Many ministers kept their jobs, although Liz Truss was demoted. Here’s a visual guide to the reshuffle from the interactive team.
--Jeremy Corbyn is expected to delay any reshuffle of Labour’s shadow cabinet to focus pressure on the Conservatives.
--James Brokenshire, reappointed as Northern Ireland secretary, will co-chair all-party talks in Belfast on Monday aimed at restoring power-sharing government to the region. His ability to stay neutral given his party’s new relationship with the DUP has been called into question.
--Michael Gove’s appointment as environment minister has been criticised due to his record on climate change.
--French president Emmanuel Macron, whose new centrist party is within reach of an overwhelming majority in the French parliament, will meet May on Tuesday. It will be her first meeting with a European leader since the embarrassing election.
--May, who will face the 1922 committee on Monday, was interviewed on television but managed to avoid answering some of the more awkward questions by repeating the phrase “getting on with the job” which seems to be her new catchphrase after ditching “strong and stable”.
--The DUP’s leader, Arlene Foster, is due for talks in Downing Street on Tuesday with a view to finalising the arrangements.
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(BBC News) Queen's speech delayed, BBC understands
--The BBC understands the Queen’s Speech will be delayed by a few days. It had been due to take place next Monday.
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(BBC News) Ireland's Fine Gael leader will raise 'importance of impartiality' with May
--The new Fine Gael leader in Ireland, Leo Varadkar, has said he will raise with Theresa May the importance of impartiality in the Stormont talks. He said it's important that the two governments, as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement, should not be too close to either unionism or nationalists and republicans.

Mr Varadkar is expected to become Taoiseach later this week in a Dail vote on Enda Kenny's successor.
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(BBC News) UK government 'will be weak' entering Brexit negotiations
-German MEP Elmar Brok - a close ally of chancellor Angela Merkel - says Brexit talks need to start. He tells the BBC Germany would have preferred a government with a broad majority, able to make compromises - rather than "hardliners on the British side who can stop such comprises.

These things will essentially become much more difficult because such a weak government has no real possibilities for the needed common flexibility you need in every negotiation. So I'm surprised how weak Britain does go into these negotiations now and perhaps we should think again and make the best choice out of that in order to keep the damage down in the interest of our people. - Elmar Brok, German MEP
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--The Queen cancelled the Order of Garter ceremony in Windsor in order to attend the State Opening on Monday. (Peter Hunt, BBC News - 12 June 2017)
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(BBC News) DUP-Tory deal would be 'coalition for chaos'
--Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said no DUP-Tory deal would be good for Northern Ireland.

"I would hardly call a coalition... I would hardly call that sort of arrangement between the DUP and the English Tories stable," he said. "It is a coalition for chaos in the time ahead."
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--According to @LordAshcroft poll 35-44s voted LAB 50%-CON 30%. That’s not kids, thats mortgages, car-owning, kids at school, mid-career. (Rhodri Jones, Channel 4 - 12 June 2017)
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--Scottish Conservative Leader @RuthDavidsonMSP is to meet PM at lunchtime, & will be part of Political Cabinet, meeting later. Kingmaker. (Faisal Islam, Sky News - 12 June 2017)
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(BBC News) Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson has arrived at No 10 for talks with Mrs May ahead of the Cabinet meeting.

Ms Davidson has new-found clout at Westminster after her party won 13 Scottish seats in the election. But she has hinted that she wants Mrs May to change course on her Brexit objectives.

Ms Davidson, who was a high-profile Remain campaigner ahead of the EU referendum, wants the UK to keep the "largest amount of access" to the single market after Brexit. She has also called for what she describes as an "open Brexit", which prioritises free trade and country's economic interests over curbing immigration.
-Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40249433
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(BBC News) The World at One: BBC Radio 4
--The government's Northern Ireland Secretary has said "as a government we stand four-square behind our commitments under the Belfast agreement". James Brokenshire told Martha Kearney that the focus was on "getting a devolved government back into place" and that there was a "clear process".

When asked if he could remain an 'honest broker' if the DUP agreed to support a Conservative minority government, he reiterated the importance of "holding fast to the Belfast agreement" and "to those principles as a government of working for all communities in Northern Ireland."
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