Liz Truss is a top Cabinet Minister, having got the UK free trade deals with 66 c­unteries worldwide. We now have deals with almost everywhere that matters, crucially including the best of the middle east, far east and India, all being important now and set to become even more important in the future. Canada, Japan and Taiwan are also on board. Australia and New Zealand are in a race for who signs up next. It is going very well, at the moment it is almost one trade agreement per week.

There's f­uck all there that we need from the EU. So Lord Frost can continue to be what the EU t­wats call "confrontational". What they mean by that is that he absolutely refuses to let the UK get p­issed on by a body that hasn't got a pot to p­iss in.