Tory MP Steve Baker apologies to Ireland and EU for behaviour during Brexit

Northern Ireland secretary says he and colleagues had not always respected others' legitimate interests'

Steve Baker - arch Brexiter and one of the Conservative party's fiercest campaigners to get the UK out of the EU - has apologised to Ireland and Brussels for the way he and some of his colleagues behaved over the past six years.

Baker told the Tory party conference that he and others in the party had not shown respect to the legitimate interests" of Ireland or the EU during the campaign to leave the bloc.