DUP’s influence over Brexit is ‘unacceptable’, Nicola Sturgeon tells Theresa May

Theresa May is unfairly favouring Northern Ireland over Scotland and the UK’s other devolved nations in the hope of forcing her Brexit deal through, Nicola Sturgeon has said. In a letter to the Prime Minister, she claimed the Government’s actions on Brexit had done “sustained and consistent” damage to the idea that the UK was a partnership of equal nations. “It seems clear that maintaining your majority in the UK Parliament comes before respect for the properly constituted governments” Nicola Sturgeon The Scottish First Minister also accused Mrs May of putting her slim working majority at Westminster ahead of respecting the devolved governments by trying to win the DUP‘s support. Ms Sturgeon was responding to reports that the Government is preparing to offer Northern Ireland extra funding in a final desperate attempt to get its Brexit deal through the House of Commons.