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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I don't think there is anyone in this govt. able to smooth UK/EU relations (they are now confrontational by nature, & will remain so until there is a change of govt).
However, in @DavidGHFrost, govt. have put the most qualified person they have in charge of the relationship. No-one in govt. knows the TCA as well as him, & he is clearly attuned to what the PM wants.
And by making him a Minister, Parl. will have more opportunities to scrutinise him & govt's. approach to the EU relationship. This move allows for a little more transparency (although don't expect govt. to suddenly become an open book).
I also wonder, amongst all the other issues that wld have been pt of the thinking behind this decision, whether this needed to be done to free-up Gove's bandwidth. Everything seems to go through him, & he will be doing some heavy lifting soon on Sco. Needs the EU off his plate.

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18 Feb
Some thoughts on David Frost following his elevation to the Cabinet, why he is perfectly qualified for the job and why that doesn’t mean relations with the EU will improve or that the flaws in the TCA that so many businesses have been pointing out will go away.
First, his qualifications. No-one is better placed on Whitehall to manage future relations with the EU.
This isn't because Frost will crisscross the continent, repairing relations, & befriending leaders from Berlin to Bucharest, & Rome to Riga, but because future relations with the EU will be confined to the frameworks set out in the TCA & the Protocol, treaties Frost negotiated.
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25 Jan
It has been less than a month since the UK left the single market and the customs union, and the result has been chaos.
Fishers are anchoring their ships and halting the catch because they can no longer sell their product in the EU. Produce is being left to rot because an enormous increase in paperwork means it cannot get to market quickly enough.
Hauliers are stuck in queues at the border or left stranded in the cold and wet in some bleak lorry park in Kent.
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15 Jan
It takes some cheek to write a headline like this.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
Maybe I wasn't listening properly, but I don't recall Brexiteers spending the last four and a half years setting out all the many problems that would be created by Brexit.
Admittedly, they have consistently railed against the protocol, but then again, those Brexiteers in Parliament also enthusiastically voted for it.
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6 Jan
So the government is going to ask business yet again, what rules it wants to scrap. Another in a long line of “red tape challenges” and I’ve lived through a few.
The thing is, every time government did this (at least during my time), businesses came back with few ideas about the red tape they wanted to be cut.
Chances are, the same thing will happen again. (If you keep doing the same thing, the same way, expect the same result).
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30 Nov 20
This is so misleading.

There is no legal provisions available to extend the status quo (i.e. the transition). The deadline for doing this passed on 1st July. That's it. Opportunity gone. Now the only options are to end transition with a deal, or without a deal.
Here's the relevant provision from the Withdrawal Agreement.

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
So the only way now to extend the status quo is to create a new legal base in international law that make provision for this. This can only be done by:
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28 Nov 20
I have to admit that I am completely bemused by the debate on how Labour should vote on an EU trade deal (assuming we get one), for two reasons.
The first is the politics. Voting against is a trap. It’s a vote against Brexit (at least that’s how the Conservatives will portray it).
It is also a vote for no-deal, which wld go against every position Labour has taken on Brexit since 2016.
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