Unionists need to focus on their own backyard in 2019
A prime minister the DUP has propped up for 18 months seems prepared, in their eyes, to put the union at risk
DUP leader Arlene Foster: The lesson of the past 30 months for unionists is that they need to tread extremely carefully. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
The past year, 2018, has been a difficult one for the DUP. Which means it has been a difficult year for all of unionism.
In December 2017 Arlene Foster was confident enough to boast of the “union being secure” because of the DUP’s parliamentary deal with the Conservative Party. A year later she is accusing Mrs May of a betrayal that “undermines the constitutional integrity” of the union and threatening to withdraw the votes of the DUP’s 10 MPs.