{"id":1133499,"date":"2021-12-20T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133499"},"modified":"2021-12-20T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:19:37","slug":"boris-puts-remain-voting-former-liberal-democrat-in-charge-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-puts-remain-voting-former-liberal-democrat-in-charge-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Puts Remain-Voting Former Liberal Democrat in Charge of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-522179920-e1639998418491-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Boris Johnson has put Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Secretary Liz Truss, a former Liberal Democrat and Remain voter, in charge of Britain\u2019s relationship with the European Union following the resignation of Lord Frost.<\/p>\n<p>Frost, a career diplomat until 2013, had remained the Johnson administration\u2019s point man in dealings with the European Union after helping to negotiate the Prime Minister\u2019s deals with the bloc in 2018, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/19\/brexit-minister-frost-resigns-over-bojos-lockdowns-green-agenda-high-taxes\/\">left the government<\/a> over the weekend due to misgiving about increasingly restrictive coronavirus restrictions, the green agenda, and higher taxation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Truss, who as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary has earned some good press in recent days for striking Britain\u2019s first from-scratch post-Brexit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/17\/brexit-britain-signs-trade-deal-with-australia-righting-historic-wrong\/\">trade deal<\/a> with Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/1472631012144431115\">takes over the brief<\/a> as something of a rising star in the Conservative Party, regarded by the establishment media as one of the two main contenders to succeed Boris Johnson as leader along with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n<p>While some among the largely Brexit-supporting, right-leaning Tory grassroots regard Truss as one of them, based largely on the fact that she professes enthusiasm for free-market economics \u2014 like Boris Johnson did before he became Prime Minister \u2014 and was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/russia-mocks-new-iron-lady-25626531\">pictured riding a tank<\/a> in blatant imitation of the late Margaret Thatcher, others are wary of her reputation as a political chameleon.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/independentpremium\/liz-truss-conservative-conference-boris-johnson-b1930782.html\">noted<\/a> in October that she has \u201cadopted more political positions than most people have had hot dinners\u201d, for example, and she was once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/truss-flirted-with-lib-dems-before-embracing-tories-9d6ldhjn75t\">a senior Liberal Democrat activist<\/a> and gave a speech against the monarchy at a party conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.6545454545455\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Launching <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConservativesIN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ConservativesIN<\/a> Women for Remain with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickyMorgan01?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickyMorgan01<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmberRudd_MP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmberRudd_MP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustineGreening?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustineGreening<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8MbvmIOzAq\">pic.twitter.com\/8MbvmIOzAq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/743430778969858048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.2181818181818\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chatting to students and hearing their views as part of the Brighter Future Tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/strongerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StrongerIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aTPgUCkNDk\">pic.twitter.com\/aTPgUCkNDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/720564862917689344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.3795620437956\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/strongerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StrongerIn<\/a> Northern Ireland team during my visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balmoralshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@balmoralshow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gz3xhGM8UE\">pic.twitter.com\/Gz3xhGM8UE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/730721111554572288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of her Brexit credentials, in 2016 she was a vociferous opponent of Brexit, not just offering supposedly reluctant support to the Remain campaign, like for example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8b803eb0-dc73-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818\">Sajid Javid<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36128318\">Theresa May<\/a>, but helping to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/743430778969858048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E743430778969858048%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">launch the Conservative anti-Brexit campaign\u2019s \u2018Women for Remain\u2019 group<\/a> alongside Tory left-leaners Amber Rudd, Justine Greening, and Nicky Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>She also campaigned for Remain across the country on its so-called \u201cbattle bus\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/730721111554572288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E730721111554572288%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">including in Northern Ireland<\/a>, where British Unionists are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/05\/11\/exclusive-11-years-on-tories-have-embraced-big-govt-and-sold-out-northern-ireland-dup-mp\/\">increasingly unhappy<\/a> with the way the Northern Ireland Protocol of Johnson\u2019s Brexit deals is being abused by the EU to disrupt intra-UK trade, and left their region as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/05\/brexit-isnt-done-boris-govt-happy-to-let-eu-law-apply-in-northern-ireland-keep-internal-border-for-eus-sake\/\">something of an EU province<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fixing the Protocol \u2014 or not \u2014 will be a major part of Truss\u2019s new brief once negotiations with the EU resume in January.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3117408906883\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I fully support the Prime Minister and believe it would be completely wrong to have a leadership election now. She is the right person to deliver Brexit and has shown herself to be strong and determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/1072778844535488512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Theresa May, Truss claimed she was committed to delivering Brexit after losing the referendum, not least because the Project Fear doomsday predictions crafted by the Treasury at which she was a minister during the campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4971380\/I-d-vote-Brexit-says-Liz-Truss.html\">failed to materialise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, she also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6444079\/Hammonds-No-2-LIZ-TRUSS-backs-deal-saying-change-leave-EU-anyway.html\">backed Theresa May\u2019s proposed deal<\/a> with the EU \u2014 condemned by Boris Johnson as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/07\/26\/vassalage-satrapy-colony-status-uk-boris-tears-mays-turd-brexit-plan-again\/\">\u201cvassalage, satrapy, colony status for the UK\u201d<\/a>, and strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/1072778844535488512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1072778844535488512%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">resisted<\/a> efforts by Leavers who saw it as Brexit-in-name-only to oust the then-Prime Minsiter, insisting that she was \u201cthe right person to deliver Brexit and has shown herself to be strong and determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal Johnson accepted was ultimately not much better than the one May negotiated, of course, as it included the multi-billion-euro \u201cdivorce\u201d settlement Brussels had demanded and permitted free trade only in goods, where the EU had the advantage, and not services, where the UK had the advantage, and cut out out British Overseas Territories such as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of Truss doing anything about this, or the much more contentious issues of continued EU control of Northern Ireland and continued EU plundering of British fisheries, seem low, considering she had been happy with the even worse terms that had been offered to Theresa May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6666666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Love the Remain Plane <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nh125kesE1\">https:\/\/t.co\/nh125kesE1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trussliz\/status\/732138429098659840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson has put Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Secretary Liz Truss, a former Liberal Democrat and Remain voter, in charge of Britain\u2019s relationship with the European Union following the resignation 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