Lord Frost resigned from Johnson’s government in December over its “direction of travel”Boris Johnson must cut taxes and start drilling for British oil if he is to save his premiership, Lord Frost has said. The former Brexit secretary compared No 10 to “the cockpit of a crashing airliner” where “the dashboard lights are all flashing red” and said the prime minister risked being forced out in autumn. SponsoredHe warned Johnson that there could be renewed attempts to oust him when the Commons privileges committee reports this year on whether the prime minister misled parliament over the Downing Street parties. and he said Number 10 needed “to get a move on”. He demanded the prime minister adopt traditionally Conservative policies such as scrapping VAT on energy bills, removing most tariffs on foreign goods, abandoning laws designed to regulate

Source: The Times June 10, 2022 15:36 UTC