The former Labour Cabinet member tweeted: About to question Lord Frost in the House of Lords on why his oven-ready Brexit treaty fell apart before it even got into the oven Lord Adonis went on to accuse Lord Frost in the House of Lords this morning of gratuitously insulting our European partners when he failed to show up to the reception held by the UK to host the new EU ambassador to the UK.
He also claimed that Lord Frost had decided to set himself up as an anti-diplomat rather than a diplomat and unlearn all the arts and craft of his trade that he had accumulated over the previous 20 or 30 years Lord Frost responded saying: I very much wished to go to that reception. Unfortunately, as colleagues know, I was not well on Tuesday and could not attend, but my office was there and represented me. Lord Adonis has been a longstanding critic of Brexit, even going so far as to suggest a step-by-step plan to rejoin the EU. Lord Adonis said at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in September that rejoining the EU was our destiny He said: Of course we've got to look to the future and of course we've got to be realistic. I'm the chair of the European Movement, cross-party we should be in favour of progressive reform, in favour of electoral alliance. We need to make the sum more than the parts if we're going to get this Tory government out, and we also need to be realistic about how we do it. We campaign on the musicians, we campaign on Erasmus, we campaign on the shortage of HGV drivers, we force the Government issue by issue in parliament to change their policy on these things. We force them to eat their words and then come back bit by bit. With the Liberal Democrats, with the Greens, with all other people of goodwill, it is very straightforward: rejoin the customs union and rejoin the single market. UK 'placed in strong Breixt position' says ex-trade minister OPINION Macron ready to block UK out of 80 bn EU programme INSIGHT US turning on Meghan and Harry as Americans dub William their KING REACTION Lord Adonis also recently blamed Brexit for the shortage of HGV drivers in the UK, saying that many European workers left the UK because of Covid and are yet to return as a consequence of Brexit. He said: They haven't returned because the Brexit red tape makes it hard to, it means all the time they have to spend to get through the red tape at the border makes it less economic to come. But also, their employment status is in jeopardy and it means they no longer have a right to come back into the country in the way they did before when there was a single market.