Visiting British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday said that talks to launch procedures of Britain's divorce from the European Union will start as scheduled next week.
"I confirmed to President Macron that the timetable for the Brexit negotiation remains on course and will begin next week", May said after her meeting with the new French leader, who will be a key player in the Brexit talks.
He said other nationalists had lost their seats, adding: "They (voters) have turned their back on Westminster because they know it doesn't work for them".
European Parliament leaders laid into May and called for Britain to say when negotiations would start.They were meant to begin on June 19 but look unlikely to now as May tries to reach a political deal to stay in office.
The Prime Minister is to hold talks with political leaders from Northern Ireland in a bid to allay fears the anticipated parliamentary deal with the Democratic Unionists will undermine the peace process.
Meanwhile, talks are continuing between the DUP and Conservatives, to secure the support of the DUP's 10 MPs in steering government business, including crucial measures on Brexit, through the Commons.
The start of parliament has been delayed since last Thursday's election, a gamble May took to strengthen her hand in talks to leave the European Union but which has left her scrambling for a deal with the eurosceptic DUP to keep her in power.
And some fear the viability of Northern Ireland's fragile peace - which has held since 1998 after decades of inter-community violence known as The Troubles - could rest on the arrangement, with doubts around the United Kingdom government's neutrality.
Some observers have maintained that a deal with the DUP risks destabilising Northern Ireland by increasing the influence of pro-British unionists.
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"People regard the peace process, that was very hard-earned [as certain]", he told the World at One on Tuesday.
He told reporters Sinn Féin would support any additional monies going to the Northern Ireland executive as a result of a deal.
Talks restarted on Monday in Belfast, under Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.
Although the DUP are unionists - wanting to remain part of the United Kingdom - and broadly support numerous policies of the Conservative and Unionist Party (as the Conservatives are correctly called), May's proposed deal could scupper attempt to broker a power-sharing deal with Sinn Fein - which promotes the unification of Ireland - on the Northern Ireland Executive.
Brexit is another complicating factor in the mix.
"The danger is, however much any government tried, they will not be seen to be impartial if they are locked into a parliamentary deal in Westminster with one of the Northern Ireland parties".
Northern Ireland's frontier with the Republic of Ireland will be the UK's only land border with the European Union after Brexit.
"The two issues - Northern Ireland and Brexit - might end up making the other more hard, in a vicious circle", Usherwood said.
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