evidence: Labour claimed victory after even the PM’s DUP allies had earlier decided to support their call for an end to the pay freeze for nurses, midwives, doctors and other staff. [...] The DUP’s "confidence and supply" deal with the Conservatives covers only a Queen’s Speech and Budgets, and allows the Northern Ireland party to vote how it likes on issues such as the NHS, Tory sources stressed. [...] They added that the party had decided not to fall into Labour’s ‘trap’, not least because the last time it voted against a similar Opposition Day debate it was accused of opposing higher pay for public sector workers.