PREMIUM "Johnson, who loves to be loved, will not want to risk being seen as the politician who sold out farming, but that is exactly what he is planning to do" : Richard Wright LORD FROST, the unelected cabinet member who is responsible for relations with the EU, let the cat slip from the bag this week on trade. That this coincided with a suggestion British agriculture could be decimated by a southern hemisphere free trade deal was no surprise. Frost was being questioned about the Northern Ireland protocol, which keeps it in the EU single market and creates a border down the middle of the Irish Sea. The obvious way around this is for the UK to accept compliance with EU trade standards, but Frost insisted this was a non-starter. He said this was not about dogma and the purity of Brexit, but because it would undermine freedom to conclude global trade deals.