Pacta Sunt Servanda

My letter in The Times today . It is amazing how the UK political class is allowing the small extreme DUP northern Irish anti-Dublin, anti-Europe identity party hold the rest of the UK to ransom.

"Sir,?Bruno Waterfield is right in his analysis that “If Britain moves to unilaterally override EU regulations . . . that would be tantamount to an act of aggression as well as a breach of a treaty that was negotiated and ratified by Britain only a few years ago” (“Johnson defies warnings over protocol”, May 16). Pacta sunt servanda — treaties must be observed — is a golden rule in all international negotiations. The DUP regards the Good Friday agreement as a “capitulation” and wants a return to a border sealing the six?UK counties of Ulster from the rest of Ireland. They have a right to that position but the people of Northern Ireland, as we saw in the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly,?do not share that minority view. For more than a century the extremist tail of Ulster anti-Dublin nationalism has wagged the dog of wider British interests. It is time the prime minister told the DUP that it can?no longer impose its?hard line on the rest of the people who live in the British Isles.