Could the DUP scupper Boris Johnson’s plans?

More money, free TV licences for over-75s and assurances on Troubles prosecutions on the table for new ‘confidence and supply’ deal

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Boris Johnson with DUP leader Arlene Foster at Stormont in July
(Image credit: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Before he even gets to Brussels, Boris Johnson could be set for a showdown with the DUP, as he looks to renegotiate the confidence and supply arrangement that maintains his slim parliamentary majority.

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Elliott Goat is a freelance writer at The Week Digital. A winner of The Independent's Wyn Harness Award, he has been a journalist for over a decade with a focus on human rights, disinformation and elections. He is co-founder and director of Brussels-based investigative NGO Unhack Democracy, which works to support electoral integrity across Europe. A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow focusing on unions and the Future of Work, Elliott is a founding member of the RSA's Good Work Guild and a contributor to the International State Crime Initiative, an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and training on state violence and corruption.