People in Britain do not care about what happens to Northern Ireland after Brexit and would not strongly object to a hard border, research shows.

A study by the London School of Economics and Oxford University has found strong support among Remain and Leave voters for a hard Brexit.

The research, which will be published this year, found that English, Welsh and Scottish voters had no strong feelings about the possibility of borders returning between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Over half of Leave voters (52 per cent) said they would support full passport and customs checks after Brexit. Roughly the same amount of Remain voters supported an open border.

The issues around the UK’s only land border with the European Union has been a