A legal challenge began in a London court on Thursday against the deal between Britain’s ruling Conservatives and a Northern Ireland party that allowed the government to cobble together a parliamentary majority in June. The crowd-funded legal challenge, brought by a Northern Irish citizen, is based on the argument that the deal was corrupt because it amounted to using public money to buy votes. “We say the Conservative Party purchased the political support of the DUP for the sum of £1 billion,” Dominic Chambers, a lawyer representing the challenger, told the High Court. May, who replaced David Cameron as prime minister after the Brexit referendum in June 2016, inherited a narrow parliamentary majority from him. It is not the first time May’s government has faced a citizen’s challenge over a major policy.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 26, 2017 14:03 UTC