If you’d like to wait until the end of my speech, I might just answer your question for you.

Across Europe and many other parts of the world, such deals are common. And let us be clear: you don’t like it, you can’t get over it, but with the most seats and the most votes, only the Conservative Party has the ability and the legitimacy to form the next Government. Do I agree with the DUP on many of their positions on social issues? Absolutely not. But this will provide the certainty and stability the whole country needs as we embark on Brexit and beyond, and that’s what we have to concentrate on.

I speak as somebody who wanted to remain within the European Union. Looks like we’re going out, and not a lot we can do about it at the moment. But my goodness, if we’re going out, we go out with the best possible deal and I want us to have a strong UK Government to do that. And let me be clear—