David Frost, Souvenist deemed loyal to the Prime Minister is replaced at the Ministry of Brexit by Liz Truss, converted to Euroscepticism after 2016.
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The Government of Boris Johnson sinks each day more into the crisis: Saturday, December 18, David Frost, his faithful Minister of Brexit, confirmed his resignation “The [Policy] management” by Downing Street, regretting the Tax increases decided in the fall by the Prime Minister and the sanitary restrictions adopted mid-December to try to curb the huge wave of OMICRON variant infections that sweeps over the United Kingdom. “I hope we are going to go as fast as possible in the right direction: an uncontrolled economy, unattached, in the forefront of innovation and scientific development,” Lord Frost insisted in his resignation letter.
On Sunday, Liz Truss, the ambitious Foreign Minister of Mr. Johnson, was named to replace him. Member since 2010, it has been chained ministerial positions since 2012 (education, trade, treasure …). She voted against Brexit in 2016, but since then, the elected, who insists on his political filiation with Margaret Thatcher, adopted a very eurosceptic rhetoric. It will have to resume at the foot raised the difficult renegotiation with Brussels of the North Irish protocol (part of the Treaty of Brexit governing the status of the province). Europeans have proposed many concessions, but David Frost was more demanding: the end of the role of the European Court of Justice in the province, and the almost integral lifting of customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
David Frost, 56, was deemed to be loyal to Mr. Johnson. The latter recruited him when he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Theresa May. At the time, “Frosty” as baptized since the British media, has to its credit for a rather dull diplomat career (a passage through Brussels, an ambassador position in Denmark). But it stands out for its strong Eurosceptic and sovereignist convictions, quite rare to the Foreign Office. Mr. Johnson The Brexit Chief Negotiator Bombard when he entered Downing Street, in July 2019, then appoints him to his cabinet in early 2021. His serious reassures Brussels at first, but his ideological approach is quickly considered a brake on the Search for a compromise. The distrust of it was maximal since this summer, it demanded to renegotiate the North Irish protocol, which it had yet accepted eighteen months earlier, threatening to suspend the application if it could not not for his ends.
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