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Former Brexit Minister David Frost calls for an economy with the lowest possible taxes (archive image)
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Conservative former Brexit secretary David Frost has released a plan to “save Boris [Johnson], the Conservative party and the country”.
Frost, who negotiated the Brexit trade pact with the EU in months of discussions, wrote in the Telegraph on Saturday that Johnson was currently at risk of losing popular support.
His government seems unable to decide whether it wants to be "a traditional low-tax Tory government or to transform Britain into a European social democracy".
Frost's core demand is to abolish as much state intervention and spending as possible after Brexit and to build a competitive, innovative economy with the lowest possible taxes.
"Our goal must be that everyone around the world looks at Great Britain and says: 'Yes, they are on the right track'," wrote the politician, who in future wants to be a regular columnist for the ultra-conservative newspaper.
Frost resigned from the British cabinet shortly before Christmas when Boris Johnson slightly tightened the corona measures again because of the highly contagious omicron variant, thereby provoking a rebellion in his own party.
Frost is less interested in the Prime Minister's alleged misconduct at Downing Street lockdown parties, which could potentially lead to a vote of no confidence in Johnson: "Whatever happens with 'Partygate' things have to get going again," he writes.
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