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...

A kind of disaster nationalism craves the likely chaos as we head towards no deal. And Johnson is channelling its energyWho is really setting the agenda on Brexit? The politician wielding the most leverage has never, in his entire career, held a parliamentary seat, let alone a cabinet position. He...