To understand Lord Frost is to understand Britain’s approach to Brexit
The world according to Boris Johnson’s pugnacious chief Brexit negotiator
A VISITOR PICKING up a newspaper at the Eurostar terminal would be puzzled. Why, five years after the Brexit referendum and two years after agreeing on an exit treaty, are the British still arguing over the same vexed issues of customs, subsidies and courts? Why, as a pandemic rages and straining supply chains threaten to ruin Christmas, is its government risking a trade war over issues it had promised voters were fixed?
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Portrait of a Brexiteer”
Britain December 4th 2021
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