It is also a party that campaigned hard for Brexit in Britain - a country where it does not stand candidates - buying up advertising singing the praises of a British exit from the bloc, including ad £250,000 wrap on the Metro newspaper.
They are adamant the UK Government can no longer cast itself as a neutral facilitator in the process, given Theresa May's intent to form a minority government with the help of a confidence-and-supply deal with the unionist party.
May is under pressure to take on a more cross-party approach to the negotiations surrounding Brexit.
Over the next 13 days, we will see how the DUP conversation affects the right wing of British politics in regards to how voters see the legitimacy of a future Conservative government after another general election and it's surely a line left wing parties will attack hard.
The Conservatives' ability to adhere to such a commitment if they are wedded to a parliamentary alliance with the DUP has been questioned.
Talks to restore the power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland are to continue today, 12 June.
Along with some other Northern Irish parties, the DUP have already flexed their local muscle to ensure that rights permitted in the U.K.as a whole are off limits to Northern Ireland's residents.
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The DUP has blocked all progress on equal marriage in Northern Ireland, and supports the introduction of a "conscience clause" to protect people who discriminate against LGBT people.
On the other side of the coin, the closer one looks at the DUP, the more obvious it becomes that they can not be seen simply as a Unionist counterpart to the Nationalist/Republican parties. Events don't always unwind as you expect them to unwind.
Major's warning comes amid ongoing political turmoil in Northern Ireland.
"Equally the government is taking a risk by coming into a close relationship with them for obvious reasons". He was referencing efforts to maintain the independence of Austria but similar could be said of successive UK Governments' general attitude towards Northern Ireland and the dismal record of human rights violations that persists there to this day.
A deal with the DUP could bring new and unwelcome issues to the door of the current occupier of Number 10 which many senior Conservatives understand and they will not be in a rush for an election any time soon.
That part of the United Kingdom that is Northern Ireland now looks like two countries with the south, south west and west of the six counties entirely in the hands of Sinn Féin, and the area east of the Bann entirely under the control of the DUP. The DUP, which is the biggest Unionist (ie pro-UK) party in Northern Ireland, are often treated as though they are just the same as the other Unionist party they have essentially replaced - the Ulster Unionists.
"It is important to distinguish what happens at Westminster and the votes that take place here, and devolution and the obligations and responsibilities that we hold fast to in relation to Northern Ireland", he said.
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