Boris Johnson rejects Northern Ireland-only backstop

Boris Johnson has rejected the idea of using a Northern Ireland-only backstop to solve the Brexit impasse, dismissing the idea during a stage-managed Downing Street event in which he answered questions via social media.The self-styled “People’s PMQs” saw the prime minister spend slightly under 14 minutes answering pre-selected voters’ questions on a live Facebook feed from Downing Street, with no follow-up or scrutiny of his answers.Answering one question on the backstop