Lord Frost Return, Rwanda Failure & Reform To Leave ECHR

Could Frost Become Foreign Secretary?

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Frost For Foreign Secretary?

One of the major boosts for Liz Truss early on in the leadership contest was how many big beast Brexiteers came out and backed her campaign.

Nadine Dorries, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the former Brexit Minister Lord Frost all backed Truss relatively early on in a big show of faith.

Going further, Frost questioned the ability of rival candidate Penny Mordaunt and urged the popular Kemi Badenoch “to stand down in return for a serious job in a Truss administration”.

Frost is clearly a man who makes many in Brussels pretty uncomfortable and who by contrast has a lot of support from grassroot Brexiteers who respect the way he handled EU negotiations.

Since leaving government he has spoken out on a range of issues and called for a Conservative Government to actually implement authentic conservative policies.

His agenda - something of a Freedom Manifesto - was set out to include getting Brexit back on track, lower taxes and getting a grip on immigration.

There was then talk of Frost running as the Conservative candidate in a by-election to become an MP. That didn’t happen but he hasn’t ruled out standing in the future.

Could Frost now be given a major role under a Liz Truss premiership if Truss wins the leadership race as expected?

Note Lord Frost’s latest retweet of this from Jennifer Rankin:

One important sign will be who handles EU relations for next gov. @Mij_Europe has heard suggestions David Frost being considered as Brexit Minister, even Foreign Secretary by Truss. If Frost has ‘any meaningful agency on this question I think this is a very negative signal’.

The prospect of Frost returning as Brexit Minister will rattle many in the EU.

If he was promoted to Foreign Secretary the reaction would be even more potty, including from hardline Remoaners who despise Frost.

But if Truss wants to hit the ground running, big promotions for Lord Frost, Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch would be a very strong start and serious statement of intent.

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13,000

The Rwanda ‘policy’ - I regard it as more of a vague idea than actual policy right now - was announced back in April.

Since then after ECHR intervention there has been a lot of talk about it. Both Truss and Sunak have backed the Rwanda strategy in theory. But the policy simply has not been implemented.

The situation has been growing more desperate for years now with the numbers crossing illegally from France increasing year after year.

Just to underline the complete failure we have seen, more than 13,000 people have now crossed the Channel since the Rwanda plan was announced.

Announcing policy that then never happens amounts to a capitulation. Will the next PM make the Rwanda proposal a reality? Will they finally stop the boats? Voters are right to be hugely sceptical now.

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Reform Call To Leave ECHR

If the Government fails to act then many Conservative voters could switch support to the Reform UK Party.

As I highlighted yesterday, it was Reform Leader Richard Tice who helped expose that a large percentage of those crossing are actually from Albania.

In a major challenge to the Conservatives, Richard Tice has slammed the two Tory leadership contenders:

“Again, the Conservatives have failed, and the 2 lacklustre leadership candidates don't have the answers.”

Tice also revealed the Reform UK strategy to tackle illegal migration.

1) Publish the origin of Channel migrants monthly.
2) Instruct the Navy to give the location of launch points immediately to the French police and also to publish them publicly.
3) Pick up and take back boats under the existing laws provided in the 1974 International Convention of Safety of Lives at Sea.
4) Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention. 
5) Reform the Human Rights Act 1998
6) Merge the existing Border Force and Immigration Enforcement departments into a single dedicated force, to be called Her Majesty’s Border Force (HMBF)
7) Remove the new HMBF from woke civil service control, attaching it to the Home Office as a separate entity.

As I thought, expect Reform candidates across the country to be campaigning to leave the ECHR at the next election.

If the next Conservative PM fails to stop the illegal migration crisis it is hard to see the Tories winning another majority.