Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief negotiator on Brexit has blamed the political “weakness” of Britain’s position in relation to the European Union for the problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Lord Frost negotiated the Withdrawal Agreement with the 27-nation bloc in 2019 but resigned as Brexit minister in December 2021 saying he had “concerns about the current direction of travel” under Johnson.
Now, in a foreword to a report by the Policy Exchange think tank called “The Island of Ireland: Two Distinct Economies,” Frost said the EU’s “purism” was threatening the Good Friday peace agreement.
Under the protocol Northern Ireland effectively joins the EU’s Single Market but a de facto border in the Irish Sea requires customs checks on goods moving from the British mainland to Ulster, something which has infuriated unionists and loyalists….
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