Exclusive: leaked report says at present there is no deliverable alternative to the backstopAll potential solutions to the post-Brexit Irish border are fraught with difficulty and would leave smaller businesses struggling to cope, experts have said, as leaked government papers outline major concerns just two months before Britain is due...

Irish deputy PM Simon Coveney strongly criticises Johnson’s hard stance on border backstopIreland has said it cannot agree to Boris Johnson’s demands just for his “political convenience”, giving the lie to fresh claims that the EU was about to compromise on the Irish border backstop.In an interview in Dublin, the...