DUP's Dodds: May's deal is doomed unless something has changed

Haresh Menghani FXStreet

The DUP's Westminster leader - Nigel Dodds, crossed the wires in the last hour saying that the UK PM Theresa May's Brexit deal is doomed unless something has changed. There must be a real change to protect the economic and constitutional integrity of the UK and deliver Brexit, Dodds added further.

Given that the UK cross-party talks are going nowhere, the comments set the case of May's deal being rejected when it is again presented for a vote in the first week of June.

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