DUP promises to use pact with Conservatives to tone down austerity

Labour said to be considering amendments to Queen’s speech on school cuts, winter fuel allowance and the bedroom taxThe Democratic Unionist party has said it will act as a “brace against hard austerity” in its deal with the Conservatives, as rebel Tory MPs suggested that they could torpedo unpopular policies by tacitly backing Labour amendments to the Queen’s speech.The DUP’s leader, Arlene Foster, said it was “right and proper” that her party would vote