“The teams managing Covid – not just in Number 10 – the fact that they were in the office and seeing people meant that you tended to forget what life was like for everyone else, because to you it seemed a bit normal.“I think, honestly, people are going to look back at the last couple of years, globally, and see lockdown as a pretty serious public policy mistake.”.Frost doesn’t hold back in his criticisms of government policy, and what it will take to better improve the machinery of Whitehall. What does Lord Frost think about Dominic Cummings, the Government’s Net Zero ambitions and the Northern Ireland Protocol, as well as pretty much every political issue of the day? Wonder no more Liam Halligan manages to get a huge amount out of the UK’s lead Brexit negotiator, in this interview. This segment has been extracted for Youtube)Įpisode: ‘Stop this Covid theatre’: Former Cabinet minister Lord Frost speaks to the Planet Normal podcast

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