Lord Frost has prompted shock and outrage amongst prime Remainers over his new admission about Boris Johnson’s intentions in direction of the Northern Ireland deal he struck with the EU.

Speaking within the House of Lords yesterday, the highest Tory peer revealed he and Mr Johnson all the time needed the Northern Ireland protocol to “collapse”.

He stated this could seemingly have occurred by diverging additional and additional away from EU guidelines and requirements till the settlement fell aside.

“The Johnson Government, of which I used to be half, all the time took the view—many criticised us for taking it—that the protocol was unsatisfactory and momentary.

“We all the time hoped that, in the end, divergence by GB would produce the collapse of the protocol preparations, whether or not consensually by way of a vote, an extra negotiation or in any other case.

"We always wanted something better.”

The confession sparked fury among Remainers, who were incensed that Boris Johnson’s Government may not want to continue operating within a below-par deal with the EU.

Mike Galsworthy, a leading pro-EU campaigner, said it was proof the Boris Johnson Government signed a contract “that they intended to break by hook or by crook”.

He added the confession was proof of why the EU would not let Britain back into the Horizon science funding programme while Mr Johnson was still Prime Minister, as he could not be trusted.

Nick Tyrone, an anti-Brexit creator, accused Mr Johnson of mendacity about his “oven ready deal” in the course of the 2019 election.

Former Lib Dem London mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita attacked Lord Frost as an “absolute clown”.

Lord Frost made the feedback in a speech that was vastly vital of Rishi Sunak’s current Windsor Framework settlement with the EU, saying it will pressure the UK to additional align itself extra intently with the bloc and undermine nationwide sovereignty.

He stated he fears the long-term penalties of the deal, and warned it would “destroy long-standing trade arrangements in this country”.

The prime Tory stated the Government ought to have extra precisely offered it as a deal that “softens the protocol but it does not remove it”, quite than overselling it as an ideal enchancment.

Fellow Tory peer Dan Hannan agreed with Lord Frost, arguing the Windsor Framework merely makes “a few things a bit better, and in a small number of areas it makes things slightly worse”.

Lord Bew, nevertheless, argued that the settlement made by Lord Frost made a “fundamental democratic transformation” in returning energy to the NI Assembley, and Rishi Sunak’s newest settlement is an try “to deepen that relationship” with the EU>