LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Brexit Minister David Frost confirmed on Saturday evening that he has stepped down from his post over disagreements with the current line of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
The resignation of David Frost, one of the main architects of the Brexit agreement wanted by Boris Johnson, questions the future of negotiations with the European Union, as well as the talks on Northern Ireland.
This is a new blow for Boris Johnson, already weakened by criticism and recent scandals linked to the relations between deputies and lobbyists and to his management of the health crisis.
Boris Johnson took personal responsibility for the electoral defeat suffered by the Conservative Party in one of its strongholds on Friday.
“You know my concerns about the current direction regarding travel,” David Frost wrote to Boris Johnson in a letter revealed by Downing Street.
“I hope we get as quickly as possible to where we need to go: an entrepreneurial economy, lightly regulated and low taxed, at the forefront of scientific modernity and economic change.”
David Frost lamented in his letter that his resignation was made public, saying it was “fair” in the circumstances to resign with immediate effect.
According to the Mail on Sunday newspaper, which was the first to reveal the resignation, David Frost left his post following disagreements with the government over tax hikes and new health measures, among other things.
“(David)” Frost has resigned in a resounding manner from the government of Boris Johnson, “the newspaper wrote.
The decision to raise taxes, the introduction of new health measures to fight the pandemic and the cost of environmental policy motivated his resignation, explains the British newspaper.
David Frost, a Brexit supporter, has been in charge of the British government’s attempts to reopen negotiations on the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“Lord Frost tendered his resignation a week ago – but he was persuaded to stay until January,” the Mail on Sunday previously reported on Twitter.
(Report William Schomberg, French version Matthieu Protard)