One afternoon in June Peter Brookes, the Times cartoonist, sat down in his office surrounded by his watercolours and began sketching out his work for the next day’s paper featuring Arlene Foster delivering the Queen’s Speech. “I thought I’d be drawing her a lot after that,” Brookes says. “But it’s one of the only ones I’ve done of her.”In many ways the DUP is the dog that hasn’t barked. After becoming used to the Lib Dem foot-stamping and shroud-waving during the coalition years, the Northern Irish party has been a silent partner in the confidence-and-supply deal with Theresa May’s Tories. It takes a special sort of bad luck that the stability of the entire government rests on ten MPs bitterly opposed to…

Source: The Times November 27, 2017 09:00 UTC