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Thu 07 Jul 2008Remarks by Iris Robinson raise doubts over Tory pact with DUP
FIRST MINISTER Peter Robinson appears confident he can count on the help of prime minister Gordon Brown and the Conservative leadership at Westminster to defeat attempts to extend the British Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
However, it has become clear that the widespread anger generated by his MP wife Iris Robinson's views on homosexuality has raised further doubts about the possibility of any formal House of Commons alliance between the DUP and a future Conservative government led by David Cameron.
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