Former Brexit minister Lord Frost says he left his government role because he could not support the Prime Minister’s “coercive policies on Covid”.
The peer resigned on Saturday, but still said he had “huge admiration” for the PM who was “the right man” to lead.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will now take on his role as the UK’s lead negotiator in post-Brexit talks.
Ms Truss tweeted that she was “pleased” to be taking over.
Responding to Ms Truss’ appointment, Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president, said: “My team and I will continue to cooperate with the UK in the same constructive spirit on all important tasks ahead, including the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.”
“This is absolutely not about leadership”
Lord Frost says he and Boris Johnson “never disagreed in any way about Brexit policy” but he resigned as Brexit minister because he “couldn’t support certain policies, most recently on Covid restrictions”https://t.co/eITWNo3MaM pic.twitter.com/dAdyPyF19X
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Lord Frost said: “I left the government, as I think is well known, because I couldn’t support certain policies, most recently on COVID restrictions and ‘plan B’.
“If you’re a minister, you have to support collective responsibility, you have to support decisions of the government, and I couldn’t so that’s why I had to leave.”
He added: “I don’t support coercive policies on COVID. The prime minister’s got some very difficult decisions to take and I’m sure he’ll be thinking very hard on them.”
He continued: “absolutely not about leadership, this is about policy differences”.
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