Theresa May has finally concluded a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party after two weeks of fraught negotiations, giving her a slim overall majority in the House of Commons.
Mrs May and Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, concluded a wide-ranging agreement which will see a public spending injection of almost £1 billion for Northern Ireland, plus rules loosened for a further half a billion. Mrs Foster said that the funding package was worth £1.5 billion.
Does the deal mean May is safe?
It gives Mrs May only the slimmest of advantages: she now has a working majority of 13 MPs in the Commons, so would be vulnerable if only seven Tory or DUP MPs switched sides in a vote.
The deal covers the Queen’s speech, confidence votes, the Budget, finance bills and