United Kingdom, Foreign Minister Truss responsible for Brexit negotiations

In Great Britain from today the head of the negotiations related to Brexit becomes Liz Truss, Minister of Foreign Affairs. He replaces David Frost, who resigned yesterday. According to various British media outlets, the prime minister's position is increasingly fragile, after the opposing vote of 100 conservative deputies - from his party - hostile to one of the anti-covid measures launched by the government, and the electoral defeat in one of the Tory strongholds. Frost: "Disappointed with Covid policies" David Frost has resigned leaving the government in chaos, at a critical moment of the pandemic and on the eve of new complex negotiations with Brussels on the protocol for Northern Ireland. Loyal to Johnson - who once called him "the greatest Frost since 1709",making a pun with his surname (which means frost, and the coldest winter in the history of Europe in 1709) - the now former Brexit negotiator, according to observers, leaves a heavy void. The resigned criticized the measures against the pandemic. The treaty on Northern Ireland is in the balance And there is also concern on the other side of the Channel about the approach that Johnson will choose to have in the next negotiations with Brussels on Northern Ireland: signed by the EU and London in 2019, the post-Brexit protocol provides that goods can transit between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland without border controls: but it has been criticized by parts of British entrepreneurs who consider it penalizing and would like to cancel it.In recent weeks, London's positions had softened and a Christmas truce had been negotiated between the two sides on amicable terms. Now all the practice goes to Truss.  

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19 December 2021 In Great Britain from today the head of the negotiations related to Brexit becomes Liz Truss, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He replaces David Frost, who resigned yesterday.

According to various British media outlets, the prime minister's position is increasingly fragile, after the opposing vote of 100 conservative deputies - from his party - hostile to one of the anti-covid measures launched by the government, and the electoral defeat in one of the Tory strongholds.

Frost: "Disappointed with Covid policies"

David Frost has resigned, leaving the government in chaos, at a critical moment of the pandemic and on the eve of new complex negotiations with Brussels on the protocol for Northern Ireland. Loyal to Johnson - who once called him "the greatest Frost since 1709", playing a pun with his surname (which means frost, and the coldest winter in European history as far back as 1709) - the now former Brexit negotiator, according to observers, leaves a heavy vacuum. The resigned criticized the measures against the pandemic.

The treaty on Northern Ireland hangs in the balance

And there is also concern on the other side of the Channel about the approach that Johnson will choose to have in the upcoming negotiations with Brussels on Northern Ireland: signed by the EU and London in 2019, the post-Brexit protocol provides that goods can transit between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland without border controls: but it has been criticized by parts of British entrepreneurs who consider it penalizing and would like to cancel it.

In recent weeks, London's positions had softened and a Christmas truce had been negotiated between the two sides on amicable terms.

Now all the practice goes to Truss.

United Kingdom, Foreign Minister Truss responsible for Brexit negotiations

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