David Frost, Baron Frost

The Lord Frost
Official portrait, 2023
Minister of State for EU Relations[a]
In office
1 March 2021 – 18 December 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe
In office
31 January 2020 – 18 December 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLiz Truss
Prime Minister's Europe Adviser
In office
24 July 2019 – 1 March 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySir Olly Robbins
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Chief Negotiator for Exiting the European Union
In office
24 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySir Olly Robbins
Succeeded byPosition abolished
British Ambassador to Denmark
In office
1 May 2006 – 31 October 2008
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded bySir Nicholas Browne
Succeeded byNick Archer
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
8 September 2020
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
David George Hamilton Frost

(1965-02-21) 21 February 1965 (age 59)
Derby, England
Political partyConservative[1]
Other political
affiliations
Labour (1980s) [2]
Spouses
Jacqueline Dias
(m. 1993; div. 2018)
Harriet Mathews
(m. 2018)
EducationNottingham High School
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford (MA)
OccupationDiplomat, civil servant, politician
Awards Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

David George Hamilton Frost, Baron Frost CMG PC (born 21 February 1965) is a former British diplomat, civil servant and politician who served as a Minister of State at the Cabinet Office between March and December 2021. Frost was Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe from January 2020 until his resignation in December 2021.

Frost spent his early professional career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), becoming Ambassador to Denmark, EU Director at the FCO, and Director for Europe and International Trade at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. He was a special adviser to Boris Johnson when the latter was Foreign Secretary in Theresa May's government.

After Johnson was appointed prime minister, Frost was Chief Negotiator for Exiting the European Union from 2019 to 2020 and the Prime Minister's Europe Adviser from 2019 to 2021. He was appointed Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe in January 2020. He was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer in September 2020. Frost became Minister of State at the Cabinet Office and a full member of the cabinet in March 2021. He resigned from his government positions in December 2021.


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  1. ^ "Parliamentary career for Lord Frost - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  2. ^ Gibbons, Amy (12 July 2023). "Lord Frost: 'I was a Labour member in my teens until they gave up on ordinary voters'". The Telegraph.