May’s Brexit backstop fudge pulls Davis back from the edge

David Davis stepped back and forth from the brink and back again before many people in Westminster had even digested their breakfast on Thursday, in a tense showdown over the terms of the Brexit backstop to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.May’s premiership has seen the resignations of four cabinet ministers, but to lose her Brexit secretary might have been the fatal blow.The spectre of the Irish backstop agreement had been hovering for six months, a blueprint Britain signed up to i