duncan smith, owen paterson there. and peter lilley amongst that group. davide hour that passes, it increases the chance that she is out of the woods. yes, i think the problem with this is, as you say, there is no moment she can totally relax because this is an ongoing process. it has been going on for several months with one or two letters going in and we are never entirely sure, but it does seem slightly perplexing having been told for weeks that they are close to getting to this number, this trigger point of 48, that after last week, that fanfare from jacob rees—mogg, that fanfare from jacob rees—mogg, that there haven‘t been these letters going in order get them over the line. all i can tell you at the moment is that iain duncan smith, a leading brexiteer, former party leader, and owen paterson, former northern ireland secretary, and david tribble have gone into number ten to see the prime minister, they hope, in order to speak to her about what they think the solution would be as an alternative to this thorny problem of the irish backstop, trying to stop t