Welcome to bbc news. The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal to support theresa mays minority conservative government. The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra spending in Northern Ireland on health, education and infrastructure. The first ministers of scotland and wales have condemned the deal in the strongest terms calling it cash for votes. Theresa may has also been accused of undermining the search for stable government in Northern Ireland as our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. 18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting, a political lifetime for the Prime Minister. Deal or no deal, mrs foster . But the dup, power on their side, have been taking their time. Notjust friends but this a snap of a political family now. A deal agreed at the Cabinet Table no less. We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able to put through its programme. A strong government . Well, less wobbly perhaps. The Northern Irish pa
Welcome to bbc news. The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal to support theresa mays minority conservative government. The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra spending in Northern Ireland on health, education and infrastructure. The first ministers of scotland and wales have condemned the deal in the strongest terms calling it cash for votes. Theresa may has also been accused of undermining the search for stable government in Northern Ireland as our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. 18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting, a political lifetime for the Prime Minister. Deal or no deal, mrs foster . But the dup, power on their side, have been taking their time. Notjust friends but this a snap of a political family now. A deal agreed at the Cabinet Table no less. We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able to put through its programme. A strong government . Well, less wobbly perhaps. The Northern Irish pa
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Shark in majorca sends out of the sea. Good morning. Its monday 26th june. Im joanna gosling. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A deal between the conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party to support theresa mays Minority Government in parliament is expected to be announced very shortly. The Prime Minister is meeting senior dup figures inside Downing Street now, to finalise the details for a so called Confidence And Supply arrangement under which the dups ten mps will vote with the 317 conservatives to form a majority in the House Of Commons. We will bring you the latest on those talks. Lets go to chris mason in Downing Street. What are you expecting . Well, they arrived, the dup, around 15 or 20 minutes ago, greeted by the Prime Minister on the steps of Downing Street. Lots of beaming smiles on the expectation is that we should get details pretty soon, that we should get details pretty 0011, once that we should get details pretty soon, once that meeting breaks up, as do the exact na