JUST weeks after surviving calls for her resignation over the £400m overspend on the “cash for ash” renewable energy scandal, Northern Ireland’s Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, is now in a position to turn up the heat herself, effectively holding the balance of power at Westminister.

Former Labour British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s oft-quote old adage that “a week is a long time in politics” is certainly ringing through the corridors at Westminister this week in the wake of the British electorate returning a hung parliament.