Tory Brexiters planning to reject deal even with backstop exit clause

Steve Baker is a senior figure in the backbench European Research Group.Eurosceptic Tory MPs will still vote down the government’s Brexit deal even if Theresa May negotiates an exit clause from the Irish backstop, the former minister Steve Baker has insisted.May’s cabinet has been locked in a bitter internal wrangle about whether, and how, the government could extricate itself from the backstop, with some ministers concerned her plans could leave the UK in a permanent limbo.