David Frost, the Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton PC CMG, was Chief Brexit Negotiator and Europe adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2019-20) where 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 subsequently served as Minister for EU relations during 2021 in the Johnson government, but resigned rather than support a further lockdown in December 2021. He is now a Conservative peer and writer for the Daily Telegraph.
He spent most of his career prior to this as a professional UK diplomat and civil servant, finishing up as British Ambassador in Denmark and as Europe Director in both the Foreign Office and the Department for Business. He served overseas in the mission to the EU in Brussels, the mission to the UN in New York, and in the British embassies in Paris and in Nicosia. Between 2013 and 2016 he was CEO of one of the UK’s biggest trade associations, the Scotch Whisky Association.
He was awarded the CMG in 2006 and made a member of the House of Lords in 2020.
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