Britain’s Theresa May refuses to relax Northern Ireland’s abortion rules despite vote in Ireland

British Prime Minister Theresa May has no plans to reform Northern Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion rules despite Ireland’s vote to overhaul its own rules. May faces calls from her own party to do so, but it could antagonise the Democratic Unionist Party which she relies on for her majority.

• Theresa May faces increasing calls to loosen abortion rules in Northern Ireland