Sir,
After years of austerity, the cynical deal between to Conservative government and the DUP will inevitably stick in the throats of workers, particularly when the money is so obviously being spent to bail out an unpopular and weak Prime Minister.
A government that consistently pleads poverty when it comes to funding public services like health and education, paying wages of public sector workers or supporting infrastructure, found £1.5 billion to keep power. The question now becomes what extra money will be found for health and education across the rest of the UK? The negotiations around this deal have revealed the weakness of the UK government. With Brexit negotiations already under way, it is difficult to have confi - dence that the UK government is able to competently undertake the complexity of the task.