- December 20, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
On what would prove to be his penultimate day as Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister, during which he spoke with his EU counterpart, Maroš Šefčovič, for one last time, David Frost was disappointed.
He was disappointed with the state of the talks over the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland. He was disappointed with the EU for failing to finalise the UK’s involvement in its €95.5bn Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
It is understood that he was also pretty disappointed with those who had suggested that he had done a great big U-turn in recent days on Britain’s approach to the European court of justice in Northern Ireland. Actually, he had done it in the House of Lords the previous month but no one had been listening. Such is the lot of our peers of the realm.
But, according to Frost’s letter of resignation, when it came two days later, he had become mostly disappointed with two big government policies of late: the…
