Brexit Negotiator

Truss will have ministerial responsibility with the EU and will lead negotiations to resolve problems arising from provisions of the Brexit agreement covering trade with Northern Ireland Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. File   | Photo Credit: AP Truss will have ministerial responsibility with the EU and will lead negotiations…

Sunday 19 December 2021 6:22 pm Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will take over as Brexit Secretary after Lord Frost resigned. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been helicoptered in to replace Lord Frost after the UK’s Brexit negotiator resigned last night. Lord Frost, who helped to negotiate Britain’s departure from…

Britain’s “battle weary” Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has tendered his resignation to Boris Johnson.  In a letter to the Prime Minister, Lord Frost said that he had “concerns about the current direction of travel”; citing recent decisions to introduce vaccine passports, raise taxes and the race to reach net zero. …

Michel Barnier arrived in London this week as the British government ordered the army in to deliver fuel to filling stations where fights were breaking out among motorists as supplies ran out across the country. Supermarket shelves were empty of some products because of a shortage of CO2 and of…

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In Brief EU chief negotiator publishes blow-by-blow account of painstaking negotiationsMichel Barnier has spilled the secrets of four years of Brexit negotiations in a new book that slams the UK’s team as “childish” and “not up to the task”.  La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion), a 500-page diary of the…

The EU's long-serving Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has urged all sides to shoulder their responsibilities to Northern Ireland and what he described as a "very fragile" peace process. Speaking to the European Parliament, Mr Barnier also warned that Brexit had been a "failure" of the European Union that politicians and…