‘Starmer has sold out Britain’ | Brexit negotiator David Frost

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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David Frost – Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset will damage democracy and the British economy. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s Vibe Shift now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	It does feel to some of us like this is a slow motion undoing of Brexit.
0:34.8	The British people have spoken and the answer is we're out.
0:38.3	Everybody in the Labour cabinet would want to be back in the EU tomorrow.
0:42.3	Historically the Labour movement was about democracy and giving people a say, but they
0:47.3	seem to have lost that somewhere along the way. We're signing away the power of our national
0:53.3	parliament. It is just incredible that G7 economy will be happy
0:58.0	to allow its laws to be set by others
1:01.0	and deprive its parliament, if any say in them.
1:04.0	I don't think the economic case stacks up for any of these things,
1:07.0	but the constitutional case definitely does not. It is presented to us as just a way of streamlining how Britain relates to the European Union.
1:15.6	But it would also impact on how we do business here in the UK as well, wouldn't it?
1:19.6	That's a crucial thing that the government's doing is best to conceal from us.
1:30.3	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest today, Lord Frost.
1:35.3	David, welcome to the show.
1:37.3	Great to be back. Thanks having me.
1:39.3	Great to have you back on. There's a lot happening in the world, which we're all obsessing over, but there's
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