Hard Brexiters say only acceptable way forward is to remove backstop

Tory MP Steve Baker is examining technological methods to avoid the proposed Ireland backstop.Hard Brexiters have warned Theresa May that the only proposal they are likely to support to break the Brexit impasse is a version of the “Malthouse compromise”, which envisages removing the backstop from the draft European Union exit treaty.Steve Baker, vice chair of the European Research Group, said that he and other Conservative Eurosceptics could not support the alternative they believed