UK Covid news: Frost refuses to say if he thinks more cabinet ministers will resign over restrictions

Latest updates: Lord Frost says resignation is over policy not leadership, saying it was driven by his opposition to Covid restrictionsBoris Johnson and staff pictured with wine in Downing Street garden in May 2020Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader, told the BBC this morning that he thought the resignation of Lord Frost as Brexit minister had weakened the government ’s negotiating position with the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol. He said:From the conversations I had with Lord Frost, he was concerned that there is still a very substantial gap between the EU and the UK in the negotiations. He felt, I think, that we were fast approaching the time when the UK government needed to take unilateral action.I do think that it harms the government ’s position when you lose your chief negotiator in these circumstances and I think that the prime minister needs to get to grips with this issue.In July the government accepted that the conditions had been met to trigger article 16 and for the UK government to take unilateral action to remove the barriers to trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain ...I think we have reached the point now where if we don ’t get progress then the UK government has to call it, and that is why I am saying the prime minister is faced with a choice, and I think that choice will come very early in the new year.Continue reading...
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