The UK’s former chief Brexit negotiator has urged the Authorities to “totally and enthusiastically embrace some great benefits of Brexit” as he warned of a plot to undermine the settlement.

Lord Frost referred to a “secret” cross-party gathering on overseas affairs, which was held on the Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire final week, as “an additional piece of proof that many in our political and enterprise institution need to unravel the offers we did to exit the EU in 2020 and to remain shadowing the EU as an alternative”.

He instructed the Day by day Mail: “That’s why so a lot of these accountable for Theresa Might’s failed backstop deal had been there, whereas I and people who really delivered the Brexit agreements weren’t.”

It was initially reported by The Observer that Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove – who co-led the Vote Depart marketing campaign in 2016 – was in attendance for the discussions, alongside senior members of Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cupboard.

Lord Frost continued: “Brexit doesn’t want ‘fixing’. It wants this Conservative Authorities, elected with an enormous mandate on a Brexit programme, to totally and enthusiastically embrace its benefits as an alternative of leaving the sector to those that by no means wished it within the first place.

“I and tens of millions of others need the Authorities to get on with that as an alternative of elevating taxes, deterring funding and pushing public spending to its highest stage for 70 years.”

The importance of the occasion was performed down by sources with data of the assembly.

It’s understood Mr Gove attended the assembly as a result of he’s a governor at Ditchley Park. He not has any involvement in setting Brexit coverage in his position as Levelling Up Secretary.

A Labour supply stated: “This was a bathroom customary Ditchley Park convention. Their occasions are all the time cross-party.“

One other supply accustomed to the occasion stated it was a “fairly boring convention” on overseas affairs.

Lord Frost’s feedback come after the UK and the EU reiterated their dedication to discovering “joint options” to variations across the post-Brexit Northern Eire Protocol.

The protocol was agreed between the 2 events in 2019 as a option to unlock the logjam over securing a Brexit withdrawal settlement.

There’s mounting hypothesis {that a} deal is lastly on the playing cards to cut back the crimson tape on commerce between Nice Britain and Northern Eire.