His charm should not be mistaken for lack of determination. He's a referee so he won't be pushed around by anyone. He will not hesitate to show a red card to Europe if necessary. After Lord Frost's departure, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced on Sunday that she would take over as the lead negotiator with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol. She also revealed that Mr Heaton-Harris would act as her deputy on the talks and EU exit.
Mr Bone suggested that the Minister of State would undertake key day-to- day work, believing that there would be little difference between the approach taken by Mr Heaton-Harris and Lord Frost. He was elected a member of the European Parliament in 1999, representing the East Midlands, as a former chair of the European Research Group. In the 2010 general election he won the safe Tory seat of Daventry. During the early 2010s he rebelled against the Tories under David Cameron's leadership in support of an early referendum on Britain's EU membership.
That tells you his credentials. It would be very hard to find a member of the House that doesn't like him either. He said that in lieu of Lord Frost, Mr Heaton-Harris' appointment is the best news to emerge from Downing Street for a while. After Brexit, the Protocol was designed to prevent checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, but it has caused disagreement between the UK and EU over trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. No 10 pushes back against a garden photo from the first national lockdown LATEST High cholesterol: Can eating at a certain time of day lower levels? REPORT This is serious! Tory MP breaks cover after Frost left the EU negotiating the Brexit deal, and was trying to iron out differences on the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol with the EU. He is also known to be frustrated by Mr Johnson's reluctance to trigger Article 16 in the Northern Ireland talks, which would end the protocol and reunite the UK. Lord Frost's resignation was described by Tory MP Andrew Bridgen Conservative as a blow to the PM, the Government and any true Conservatives. He said that Lord Frost's concerns are exactly the same as many backbenchers and after this week s by-election it appears to be the former Conservative voters in North Shropshire. Robert Oulds, from the Eurosceptic Bruges Group, said he had allowed himself repeatedly to be outmanoeuvred by the EU and that he had gone before the failure of his mission to implement Article 16, and his betrayal of Northern Ireland, where he allowed Ulster to remain a colony of the EU. The new role of Heaton-Harris caused the FT's Whitehall editor, Sebastian Payne, to speculate that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision was tactically significant.