Northern Ireland now has more Nationalist than Unionist MPs for the first time | JOE.ie

Speaking on the BBC, political commentator Andrew Marr was particularly blunt regarding the immediate outlook for the DUP."I don't know if you have tears to shed but you might consider shedding them for the DUP. It's not just that they have lost two seats, which is not a very large number, nor even that the balance has tilted towards the nationalists in Northern Irish seats.

"That has infuriated parts of the DUP with the government here but it has also made Northern Irish business very angry with the DUP, so that's weakened their position. Then, finally, they have lost their great leverage in terms of the numbers in the House of Commons because the Tories no longer need to turn to them.

"Alternatively, they could do the one thing that seems almost unthinkable; they could start to talk to Dublin about the future. That would mean all sorts of things.

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