Parliament Opening Date Set, Suggesting Tory Deal Reached

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At least 12 people died and dozens more were injured when a fire ripped through a tower block.

May lost her parliamentary majority in last week's election and is now desperately seeking the support of the 10 MPs from Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party.

For Brussels, a concern with starting talks on such models would be that Brexit supporters might end up blocking them, raising the risk of time running out to get any deal: "Would you". There is a steady dialogue between the two sides that has never stopped at any point.

"We never put timescales on when we expect a deal to be done and I'm not going to start now".

Other EU governments will be happy to let Britain keep trade open as it would limit the hit to their own economies, officials told Reuters, though they are not ready to ease conditions that May would struggle to sell to her party's Brexit hardliners.

Given that nothing substantive emerged from the meetings, yesterday merely underlined the sense that this was all about the optics and only reaffirmed the notion that the Tories' interest in Northern Ireland is exclusively about expediency and the DUP.

Dodds will meet May at Downing Street on Thursday afternoon for one of a series of meetings May is having with the leaders of Northern Ireland parties in an effort to reach agreement on setting up a new power-sharing government for the region, he said.

The leader of Britain's House of Commons says the state opening of Parliament will take place on June 21.

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The biggest pressure on the DUP right now is the danger of a sense taking hold that it is needlessly stalling on a deal and therefore not acting in the national interest.

The move came as a senior Conservative source said talks with the DUP on a deal to prop up a minority Tory administration were "progressing well" with "broad agreement" on the principles of the Speech, setting out the Government's legislative programme for the coming year.

Brexit talks to be delayed?

The Conservative source said: "We're confident of getting an agreement, we're confident that the Queen's speech will be passed". But the deal would be delayed until next week due to the fire incident in London.

But it is likely to accede to European Union demands that the date should be when Britain leaves the European Union in 2019, the FT said.

"Look at what the Tories (Conservatives) have managed to do to the United Kingdom in the space of just one year, firstly calling a divisive and reckless European Union referendum. then having lost that gamble pursuing a hard Brexit path", Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said.

He said: "I wanted to revive the role as it gives the party another powerful voice and has helped give prominence to many of our notable MPs, including Ming Campbell, Simon Hughes and Vince Cable".

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