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The UK’s Brexit minister David Frost has resigned, according to the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Lord Frost, who has led negotiations with the EU, is reported to have handed in his resignation letter to British prime minister Boris Johnson last week. But the Mail on Sunday reported he had been convinced to stay on until January.
Downing Street did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Lord Frost has yet to make a public comment on the report.
The newspaper said Lord Frost’s resignation had been prompted by the introduction of additional Covid-19 measures, including Covid passes, a broader discontent with tax rises and the cost of “net zero” environmental policies.
Sky News reported Lord Frost was going “on good terms”.
If confirmed, the departure of the British government’s most senior Brexit negotiator is yet another blow to Mr Johnson, who has faced warnings from some of his own MPs that he must improve his leadership or face a challenge.
Mr Johnson said on Friday he took personal responsibility for the loss of a Conservative stronghold in the North Shropshire byelection, where the Liberal Democrats comfortably won on Thursday.
The EU and UK declared a Christmas truce in talks over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangements on Friday. After the talks, Lord Frost said that negotiations were not close to solving problems that the Northern Irish protocol he negotiated had created.
“It is disappointing that it has not been possible to reach either a comprehensive or worthwhile interim agreement this year,” Lord Frost said. “A solution needs to be found urgently early next year.”
“For as long as there is no agreed solution, we remain ready to use the article 16 safeguard mechanism if that is the only way to protect the prosperity and stability of Northern Ireland and its people,” he said.
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has said Lord Frost’s departure would be a bad sign for the prime minister’s commitment to removing the Irish Sea border.
Mr Donaldson said: “This government is distracted by internal strife, and Lord Frost was being frustrated on a number of fronts.
“We wish David well. We enjoyed a strong relationship with him and his team, but this raises more serious questions for the prime minister and his approach to the NI protocol.
“Whether on Northern Ireland’s access to medicines, our economic prosperity and trade with the rest of the United Kingdom or on the growing divergence between NI and GB, this protocol has been a deeply damaging deal for the people we represent.
“The prime minister must now urgently decide which is more important – the protocol or the stability of the political institutions.”
Former DUP leader Arlene Foster described Lord Frost’s resignation as “enormous”.
In a tweet, she said: “The resignation of Lord Frost from the Cabinet is a big moment for the Government but enormous for those of us who believed he would deliver for NI.”
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner said the news represented “a Government in total chaos right when the country faces an uncertain few weeks”. She tweeted: “ Boris Johnson isn’t up to the job. We deserve better than this buffoonery.”
Discontent
In a speech last month, Lord Frost expressed his clear discontent with the current course of post-Brexit British policy.
“We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the European Union from Britain with Brexit, only to import that European model after all this time,” Lord Frost said in a November 22nd speech at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Trade.
He disagreed with “those who think we can treat the private sector as just a convenient way of keeping the public sector running”.
“It isn’t just a source of taxes,” he said. “We can’t carry on as we were before, and if after Brexit all we do is import the European social model we will not succeed.” – Reuters