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LONDON — David Frost, the official who led the negotiation of the U.K.’s post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, will join Boris Johnson’s Cabinet as a government minister and will be London’s representative on the key U.K.-EU partnership council, Downing Street announced.
Frost, who was appointed to the unelected House of Lords last year and can therefore serve as a minister, will take on a wide-ranging brief encompassing government policy on both the domestic and international aftermath of Brexit.
His appointment as a “minister of state in the Cabinet Office” means he can take the U.K. chair of the partnership council mandated by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement struck with the EU in December. He will also replace Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove as chair of the joint committee that oversees the implementation of 2019’s Withdrawal Agreement.
Frost said he was “hugely honoured to have been appointed Minister to take forward our relationship with the EU after Brexit.”
“In doing so I stand on the shoulders of giants & particularly those of [Michael Gove] who did an extraordinary job for this country in talks with EU over the past year.”
Last month it was announced that Frost would lead on the U.K.’s institutional and strategic relationship with the EU. In his new ministerial role he will also work on domestic reform and regulation to “maximize the opportunities of Brexit,” Downing Street said. He will also play an additional role coordinating post-Brexit trade policy with non-EU countries.
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