May delivers the very fear she peddled

Theresa May warned of a coalition of chaos. Of getting into power with a party with historical links to terrorists. Of instability that could damage the UK and the chance of a good Brexit deal.

And she was right. Because that’s May’s new Government.

She must rely on the support of 10 Democratic Unionist MPs – a party with close links to loyalist paramilitaries and which opposes abortion and gay marriage.

May also needs the support of Scottish Conservatives led by a married lesbian. And it doesn’t stop there. Her MPs are still bitterly divided between those who want a hard or softer Brexit.

And she will now have to factor in DUP demands for an EU customs union deal – something May and Boris are opposed to.

But, most worryingly, the DUP deal could bring down the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Thanks to Labour’s Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland, we have a powersharing government between Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists, in the form of the DUP and Sinn Fein.

Now May has to rely on the DUP to get laws through the UK parliament, Britain’s role as an honest broker between nationalists and unionists is completely compromised.

In a sad and desperate attempt to cling to power, Theresa May has lost all moral authority, given Northern Ireland unionists a veto on her agenda and kept Cabinet members in their jobs because she’s too weak to move them.

That’s her “strong and stable government”. She’ll be torn apart by 27 EU nations.

May says she decided on an election during a walking holiday. Today she’s a dead PM walking.

Five years of government? She won’t make five months.

And for a PM who fought one of the nastiest political campaigns of all time, it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.