David Frost, the Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton CMG, was a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union. He takes the Conservative whip in the House of Lords. He was Chief Negotiator and Europe adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2019-21) and then Cabinet Minister responsible for EU relations (2021). He led the negotiations which broke the political deadlock over Brexit, finally took the UK out of the EU, and put in place the world’s broadest free trade agreement. He began the work of post-Brexit reform and of dealing with the problems of the Northern Ireland Protocol, but left the Government over broader policy differences in December 2021. He spent most of his earlier life as a professional diplomat, notably as British Ambassador to Denmark, Europe Director and head of Policy Planning in the Foreign Office, and Britain’s chief trade negotiator and member of the EU’s Trade Policy Committee.  He also has trade experience outside Government as CEO of one of the UK’s biggest trade associations, the Scotch Whisky Association (2013-16).