ROSL Public Affairs Series Talk with Lord Frost of Allenton PC CMG

Britain after Brexit - what does the future hold?
David Frost, the Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton PC CMG, was Chief Negotiator and Europe adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2019-21) and then Minister responsible for EU relations (2021). He led the negotiations which broke the political deadlock over Brexit, finally took the UK out of the EU, and put in place the UK / EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the world’s broadest free trade agreement. He was subsequently responsible for the post-exit negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol, and for leading aspects of post-Brexit domestic reform, but left the Government over policy differences in December 2021.
He is one of the few individuals in the UK system who has been all three of Minister, special adviser, and professional diplomat and civil servant. He was Boris Johnson’s political adviser on foreign policy in the Foreign Office (2016-18) and before that was British Ambassador in Denmark (2006-8) and Europe Director in the Foreign Office (2003-6). He served overseas in the missions to the EU in Brussels and the UN in New York, and in Paris and in Nicosia. In the Department for Business, he was Britain’s chief trade negotiator and the UK member of the EU’s Trade Policy Committee (2010-13).
He also has trade experience outside Government as CEO of one of the UK’s biggest trade associations, the Scotch Whisky Association (2013-16), and in that capacity was closely involved in the politics around the 2014 Scotland independence referendum.
He speaks to varying degrees French, German, Greek, Danish, and Russian and has smatterings of other European languages.
He was awarded the CMG in 2006 and made a member of the House of Lords in 2020.