Northern Irish Kingmakers Tell Theresa May: Don’t Betray the United Kingdom

Northern Irish Kingmakers Tell Theresa May: Don’t Betray the United Kingdom
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London on Oct. 29, 2018. Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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LONDON—The Northern Irish party which props up Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, cast her Brexit negotiation as a betrayal and cautioned it could not support a deal that divided the United Kingdom.

The warning underscores the travails that May faces in getting any Brexit divorce deal, which London and Brussels say is 95 percent done, approved by both her fractious party and by the Northern Irish lawmakers who keep her in power.