We’re expected to believe Lord Frost resigned over Covid measures – yeah, right

I see we are expected to believe that Lord Frost has resigned from cabinet because he is unhappy with Covid-19 regulations.

No chance that it is because he was only placed in the role – which only exists due to the stupidity of leaving the EU – as a reward, along with a peerage, for backing Brexit and then realising the sunlit uplands are unachievable and at last owning the fact he is out of his depth?

No, absolutely no way it can be connected to any of that.

Robert Boston

Kingshill, Kent

Of course, Boris Johnson’s government is incompetent. But we should direct our anger about the Covid situation to the right target.

I understand that the vast majority of patients in intensive care due to Covid are unvaccinated. They have every right to risk their own health, but they are responsible for damaging the health of everyone else too.

Without them, the NHS could cope better, and people with other conditions would be treated sooner. Without them, we wouldn’t need the inevitable lockdown that is surely coming.

We have been told throughout to be patient with the unvaccinated because they have their reasons. But they have had a year to understand the situation, and now their selfishness is going to cause us more pain. Let’s stop humouring them and make it clear that the restrictions are their fault. Better still, let them be locked down where they cannot get infected, so the rest of us can live our lives.

Eric Wolff

Royston, Hertfordshire

Wasn’t the UK lucky to have two unelected bureaucrats called Lord Frost to help us escape from the clutches of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels? After all, our bureaucrats are better than theirs. This was shown by the fact that the first Lord Frost made an error in his negotiations with the EU and left a mess with the Northern Ireland protocol.

Fortunately, Boris Johnson was astute enough to take him off the job, and replace him with another Lord Frost, whose job was to undo the mess made by the first one.

Some people have told me that they are one and the same person, but I can’t believe that even Boris Johnson is fool enough to employ someone to sort out his own mess.

The question is, which Lord Frost has resigned, and will the other one be re-employed to sort out the new mess?

John Broughton

Calver, Derbyshire

In the long term, our continued safety and prosperity in the UK will always be dependent on a close, mutually supportive relationship with the rest of Europe. So news of the resignation of Lord Frost, whose sole brief appears to have been to further antagonise the EU, brings tidings of great joy.

One can only hope that whoever succeeds him as our still-getting-Brexit-done minister will be less inclined towards macho 19th-century imperial posturing, better capable of understanding the treaties being negotiated, and better able to persuade our indolent prime minister to take the trouble to read them before he signs them.

D Maughan Brown

York

How seasonal. A Frosty lord-a-leaping from the sinking ship or out of the oven-ready deal that never warmed can only presage the Boxing Day regrets of the turkeys who voted for Christmas.

But while the rats bite and scratch among themselves to see who will become the new squeaky-clean, that-was-nothing-to-do-with-me leader of the Conservatives, the rest of us are left to live their lies.

The oven may have been cold but we all got burnt.

Amanda Baker

Edinburgh

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It is obvious to me that cabinet members, civil servants and advisors are jumping the Tory ship to distance themselves from Boris Johnson’s disastrous mismanagement of the past two years.

The Tories won many northern seats, unexpectedly, in the last election promising to “level-up”, whatever that means, but within a short while, Johnson’s lies and deceit were exposed.

The dragged-on and incomplete Brexit negotiations have sorely damaged Britain’s standing on the world stage and been a huge burden.

Johnson is losing support from all areas in Britain and now he is being deserted by those who elected him. What are the doyens of the 1992 club and other MPs waiting for? Boris needs to go now.

Keith Poole

Basingstoke