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She said: “The London government had been acting in a fairly partisan way before.  “But really, the thought that chair of the talks would be a coalition partner, with one of the key parties,

really is not acceptable, I think to most people.  “We can’t have a situation where there is potential for side deals and side flows of information to happen.  “The talks have to be

transparent and open, and they haven’t been in the recent past.”  Last night a petition against the Tory-DUP pact was gaining momentum, having been signed by more than 500,000 people in just

12 hours.  It also called for Mrs May to resign after she lost her parliamentary majority. Ruth Davidson spoke to the Prime Minister to seek assurances about the proposed alliance between

the parties over LGBT rights.  Northern Ireland is the only area of the UK where same-sex marriages are not legal and the DUP used a controversial “petition of concern” to veto its

legalisation in 2016. Speaking to Channel 4 News, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said: “Well look I have friends in politics across many parties, but what I spoke to the Prime

Minister about yesterday was the need for a categoric assurance that talking with the DUP would not result in any rollback of any LBGT rights in the rest of the UK.  “Because as the

Conservative Party, we are the party of equal marriage, we introduced it to the House of Commons. And also we would use our influence to try and advance LGBT rights in Northern Ireland and

they are the assurances that I got.”