David Frost

The then UK chief trade negotiator, David Frost looks on as Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs the EU-UK Trade deal at 10 Downing Street, on December 30, 2020. How stupid they were to think the damaging effects of the Irish Sea border would see to its own demise. Ceding NI was far more likely. Photo: Leon Neal/PA Wire

Ben Habib: Johnson and Frost knew we weren’t leaving EU as one United Kingdom

Lord Frost helped negotiate the Withdrawal Agreement including the Northern Ireland Protocol in 2019, and was later the then prime minister Boris Johnson’s Europe advisor until 2021. Over the course of that year he became increasingly critical of the protocol, and said that it had been negotiated at a time of “extreme weakness” for the UK government.

'Protocol can't survive in current form', says Lord David Frost

Liz Truss during a campaign visit to the BenRiach Distillery in Speyside, Scotland, yesterday

Will the real Liz Truss stand  up and be a ‘one nation’ leader?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images)

New prime minister needs to combat SF’s anti-British agenda, says Ian Paisley

Lord Frost has said the Northern Ireland Protocol must be re-negotiated.

Lord Frost: It’s obvious NI Protocol cannot survive - it must be renegotiated

DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Lord Frost resignation: Sir Jeffrey hints again at threat to Stormont

Lord Frost, who was leading the push to reform the Northern Ireland Protocol, is reported to be leaving the government

Blow to unionists as NI Protocol critic Lord Frost quits the Cabinet

EU Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic

‘EU’s latest proposals will mean win-win result for all’

Alliance Party Naomi Long(left) and party colleague Sorcha Eastwood speaking to the press at Stormont after meeting Lord Frost, the UK's Brexit Minister.

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Article 16 a ‘very real option’ but Frost urged to find EU agreement

EU Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic speaking at Europe House in Westminster, London Picture Hollie Adams/PA Wire

Warning of Article 16 ‘consequences’

Lord David Frost says gaps still remain, after the latest talks on the NI Protocol with the EU.

NI Protocol: UK says gaps still remain and Article 16 still on table

Simon Coveney has contacted senior advisors in the administration of US President Joe Biden about the protocol. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Coveney in discussions with Biden advisors over UK Article 16

Letter to the editor

Boris Johnson and David Frost agreed Brexit deal yet now blame others for it

The night-time lights of Europe’s cities, as seen from space; the author says ‘a section of the British commentariat was so unbalanced by the referendum result that it now automatically sides with the EU, however unreasonable’

'UK should break Protocol just like Irish broke 1921 treaty'

Simon Coveney and Lord Frosr

Lord Frost and Simon Coveney in NI Protocol twitter spat

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney

Twitter spat between Simon Coveney and Lord Frost over NI Protocol
Simon Coveney has questioned if the UK wants “a breakdown in relations” with the European Union in a late night Twitter spat with Brexit negotiator David Frost.

European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic broke the news on the Northern Ireland Protocol today.

EU to table ‘far-reaching proposals’ on Northern Ireland Protocol next week

First Minister Paul Givan speaking to the media at Stormont. Picture date: Monday September 6, 2021.

Givan gives a welcome to Protocol grace periods

Lord Frost and Boris Johnson, pictured in Downing Street in December at the end of the transition period, are serious about re-negotiating the Irish Sea border

This is a radical UK plan to overturn the protocol

The Northern Ireland Protocol has been cited as one possible explanation for street violence over the last few months.

David Frost and Brandon Lewis met loyalist paramilitary representatives

Anti Irish Sea border graffiti on Sandy Row in south Belfast.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

DUP: ‘Selfish’ Brussels using Northern Ireland as ‘bargaining chip’

Supply problems for NI supermarkets as pictured in January.

UK defends unilateral decision to extend NI Protocol grace periods

Former Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost is now in charge of UK-EU relations - ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson elbow bumps a paramedic at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service HQ during a photo op on Thursday

Boris Johnson: Only over my dead body will there be a border in the Irish Sea

(Photo: Nissan)

Nissan’s Sunderland plant still under threat under no-deal Brexit

Extraordinarily, the DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson on BBC Spotlight dismissed the notion that a customs border has implications for British sovereignty here

Owen Polley: Now even the DUP party seems prepared to go along with ‘best of bot...

Boris Johnson reportedly wants to sidestep the Irish Sea customs border agreed in the Brexit withdrawal agreement

Brexit: DUP and Sinn Fein clash over Boris Johnson plans for Irish Sea border ‘w...
Reports that Boris Johnson’s Brexit team has been ordered to “get around” the proposed customs border in the Irish Sea has caused sharply contrasting responses from the DUP and Sinn Fein.