Arlene Foster said on Wednesday that she will quit as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and first minister of Northern Ireland. She said she will leave her DUP role on May 28 and resign as first minister at the end of June. Foster, who has been first minister for five years, had faced mounting discontent among her party over her handling of Brexit and a decision to abstain in a vote on gay conversion therapy. “It has been the privilege of my life to serve the people of Northern Ireland as their first minister and to represent my home constituency of Fermanagh/South Tyrone,” she said in a statement. “I have sought to lead the Party and Northern Ireland away from division and towards a better path,” she said. “The future of unionism and Northern Ireland will not be found in division, it will only be found in sharing …