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Rip it up and start again: Frost numbs the senses with spoiled teenager act
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You have to hand it to Lord Frost. He sure knows how to lose an audience. Not that the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator had much of one to start with. There were only a few dozen people in the British embassy in Lisbon an...
Frost throws ECJ spanner in works on Northern Ireland protocol
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Before the unveiling on Wednesday of a package of proposals from the EU for Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangements designed to becalm inflamed tensions and unblock its trade with the rest of the UK, David Frost, ...
David Frost issues veiled threat to ditch Northern Ireland protocol
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The UK government has issued a veiled threat to ditch the Northern Ireland protocol sooner rather than later, warning it “cannot wait for ever” for the EU to respond to its demands to rewrite the Brexit arrangement. T...
The Guardian view on Brexit diplomacy: thaw, not Frost
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It is usually worth paying more attention to what ministers do than what they say, especially when the subject is Europe. At the start of this week, the Brexit minister, David Frost, told the House of Lords that Brita...
Lord Frost: Irish Sea row risks damaging UK-EU relations long term
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The UK will not “sweep away” the controversial Northern Ireland Brexit protocol, despite renewed calls for its abolition by the Democratic Unionist party, the Brexit minister, Lord Frost, has said. However, Frost rene...
Can David Frost actually make Brexit work? Politics Weekly podcast
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In the last episode of our special summer series, Jessica Elgot asks her guests: Who is the elusive David Frost? When did he become such a Eurosceptic? And how will the continuous fallout from Brexit affect his legacy...
Sunday with Nick Frost: ‘I go through a jar of Nescafé a week’
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What time are you up on a Sunday? I’m up really early, sSometimes 4.30am, but usually 5.30am. I’ll go downstairs and have a big mug of very strong, mud-brown Nescafé. I go through a jar a week. Then I’ll put NHK World...
Brexit campaigners ‘surprised’ by sour relations with EU, says Lord Frost
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The deterioration in relations with the EU, partly driven by the Northern Ireland “sausage war”, has come as a surprise to those that campaigned to leave the bloc five years ago, the government has admitted. The Brexi...
Lord Frost: We can’t stop EU cutting amount of UK content on European TV
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The EU would be harming itself by seeking to reduce the “disproportionate” amount of British content on European television but the government is powerless to stop it, the UK’s Brexit minister, Lord Frost, has said. T...
Roads taken: the Gloucestershire footpaths that were the making of Robert Frost
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The cows clocked us as we started across a neighbouring field, and by the time we reached the stile a dozen beasts – some with pointy horns! – were jostling for an eyeful, snorting and stamping an occasional hoof. Con...
Trade war threats will not wash with voters, Frost tells EU as row deepens
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The row between the UK and the EU over checks on sausages and other chilled foods sent from Britain to Northern Ireland has deepened, with the Brexit minister telling Brussels that trade war threats will not wash with...