FILE - Britain's caller Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leaves 10 Downing Street, successful London, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the assignment of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to go pb negotiator with the European Union, it was announced connected Sunday, Dec, 19, 2021. The quality comes a time aft long-time state David Frost resigned aft a week governmental upheaval successful the Conservative Party. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File) (Alberto Pezzali, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson connected Sunday announced the assignment of Britain's overseas caput to go the country's pb negotiator with the European Union, aft long-time state David Frost resigned aft a week governmental upheaval successful the Conservative Party.

Liz Truss volition person ministerial work with the EU and volition pb negotiations to resoluteness problems arising from provisions of the Brexit statement covering commercialized with Northern Ireland, the premier minister’s bureau said successful a statement.

In his resignation letter, Frost expressed interest astir the government’s “current absorption of travel.’’

“I anticipation we volition determination arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable to wherever we request to get to: a lightly regulated, debased tax, entrepreneurial economy, astatine the cutting borderline of modern subject and economical change,’’ helium wrote.

Frost besides expressed increasing disillusionment with the Conservative government’s policies connected taxation and COVID-19.

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The Mail connected Sunday, which broke the communicative of his resignation, said Frost’s determination was triggered by past week’s instauration of caller pandemic restrictions, including a request that radical amusement impervious of vaccination oregon a antagonistic coronavirus trial to participate nightclubs and different crowded venues.

In his resignation missive to Johnson, Frost said the U.K. needed to “learn to unrecorded with COVID. ... You took a brave determination successful July, against sizeable opposition, to unfastened up the state again. Sadly it did not beryllium to beryllium irreversible, arsenic I wished, and judge you did too. I anticipation we tin get backmost connected way soon and not beryllium tempted by the benignant of coercive measures we person seen elsewhere.”

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