SDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole 15 July, 2021 01:00 The UK's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost CLAIMS by the Brexit minister that an increase in Irish cross-border trade is a "problem" have been rejected by an SDLP politician who instead described the position as an "advantage". South Belfast MLA Matthew O'Toole said Northern Ireland's exports to the Republic have doubled since the introduction of NI Protocol while "we still have unfettered access into GB market". He was responding to evidence given yesterday by UK Brexit minister Lord Frost to a Lords' Northern Ireland Protocol sub-committee in which he expressed concerns about the spike in cross border trade - saying it was "in many ways a problem" and that he didn't want to encourage it.