Is it time to ditch or delay the Irish backstop?

Dr Alan Fowler, Pat Carvill and Brexit party MEP Ben Habib on the contentious issue at the heart of the Brexit impasse. Martin Kettle refers to the particular damage that no deal would inflict on Ireland and the influence that this factor might carry ( Deal or no deal: it’s not really up to Dominic Cummings, 8 August). But is there perhaps an argument that the EU’s insistence on the backstop is ultimately self-defeating, when up against someone as perverse as Boris Johnson, and is he