The UK’s former chief Brexit negotiator has urged the Authorities to “absolutely and enthusiastically embrace the 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 wish to unravel the offers we did to exit the EU in 2020 and to remain shadowing the EU as a substitute”.

He advised the Day by day Mail: “That’s why so a lot of these chargeable for Theresa Might’s failed backstop deal had been there, whereas I and those that 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 Go away 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 completely and enthusiastically embrace its benefits as a substitute of leaving the sector to those that by no means needed it within the first place.

“I and tens of millions of others need the Authorities to get on with that as a substitute of elevating taxes, deterring funding and pushing public spending to its highest degree 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 now not has any involvement in setting Brexit coverage in his function as Levelling Up Secretary.

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

One other supply conversant in the occasion mentioned it was a “fairly uninteresting 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 solution to unlock the logjam over securing a Brexit withdrawal settlement.

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