It turns out that this is his penultimate day as Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister. During this period, he and His EU colleague Maroš ŠefčovičFor the last time, David Frost was disappointed.
He was disappointed with the state of negotiations on the arrangements for Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangements.He said that the EU failed to finalize Britain’s Participate in its 95.5 billion Euro Horizon Europe Research and innovation plan.
It is understood that he is also very disappointed by those who have hinted that he has made a big turn in the way he coped in the UK in recent days. European Court of Justice of Northern IrelandIn fact, he did it in the House of Lords last month, but no one listened. This is our many colleagues in this field.
However, according to Frost’s letter ResignWhen it appeared two days later, he was very disappointed with two recent major government policies: restoring Covid restrictions and raising taxes to pay for the country’s escape from the pandemic.
These questions have apparently been in Frost’s mind for some time. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the government’s economic policy in a recent speech, in which he echoed Margaret Thatcher’s famous Bruges speech. “We haven’t successfully rolled back European Union From Brexit, the European model was not imported until so long,” he said.
But people who have been familiar with Frost for many years said that there may be a general disappointment in the minds of ministers.
He is the prime minister. He brought it into the government from relative obscurity. He was promoted to the cabinet. When Frost decided that he did not want to be a national security adviser (the position he was scheduled to hold at the beginning of the year), Johnson acquiesced and gave him his preferred job to play a leading role on EU issues.
But today, the prime minister is in trouble both within his parliamentary party and members. Frost is an ambitious man and has every reason to believe that he should engage in a political career outside of this government. His approval rating among members of the Conservative Party is second only to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. But to this day, he is still inextricably linked with the Prime Minister.
Although Frost’s resignation letter did not publicly criticize Johnson, it corrected this to a large extent. “I hope we can move towards what we need to achieve as soon as possible: an entrepreneurial economy with loose regulation and low taxes, at the forefront of modern science and economic change,” Frost wrote. Sources told the Sunday Mail that this concern was consistent with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, whom Frost clearly pointed out and praised in his November speech.
The 56-year-old Frost who worked with the wife of Harriet Mathews, deputy political director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described him as a “workaholic” and a “machine.” His late-night quarrel with Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney on Twitter recently highlighted this.
Some believe that part of Frost’s motivation is his determination to prove his opponents wrong. His solid career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ended with his appointment as ambassador to Denmark and then returned to Whitehall as the director of strategy.
He resigned in 2013 and became the CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association, a well-known institution that provides services to those with a certain status who leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But there seems to be something unfinished.
In a speech in Brussels at the beginning of the trade agreement negotiations, he mentioned his old boss, the former head of the foreign ministry, Lord Cole, who had hinted that Frost was only “good at doing what he was told.” In response, Frost said, “it seems impossible for any member of the British foreign service to have the same view of the EU as our current prime minister without instructions.”
As Johnson mentioned his minister in the Brussels negotiation room, the “big frost” may end. But Frost is a man with a sense of mission. You will not work in EU institutions without knowing the strategy, and you will not oppose EU institutions.
