The DUP leader was born into the bloodiest era of the Troubles and was never going to back down over the border questionIn an age of marginal political figures seizing centre stage,it is apt that the most powerful person in Britain this week was not the prime minister but Arlene Foster, a 47-year-worn County Fermanagh solicitor and the first woman to lead Ian Paisley’s staunchly loyalist Democratic Unionist party.
Until she torpedoed Theresa May’s initial Brexit deal on Monday, and Foster’s most notable contribution to public life had been the spectacular mismanagement of a subsidy scheme for woodchip boilers that led to Northern Irish farmers being paid up to £1m to heat empty barns.
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Source: guardian.co.uk