Lord Frost, the former head of Brexit who is expected to serve in a Cabinet position in a Liz Truss administration, has said he is considering running for a seat as a Tory MP.
As he discussed his intentions to go to the elected chamber, the Conservative lord said he felt “ambivalent” about his current position in the House of Lords.
The 57-year-old is in talks with local Conservative organisations regarding possible House of Commons candidates in his area.
If Ms. Truss succeeds Boris Johnson as prime minister the next week, Lord Frost is allegedly in line to join the Cabinet once again.
If the Foreign Secretary wins the Tory leadership election, he has been hailed as the future Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which would give him enormous authority at the heart of Government.
Lord Frost admitted to The House magazine that he was “still making up my mind” on a potential run for the House of Commons.
“You should truly be elected,” he added, “if you are going to be in politics where you really have a finger on the buttons of power.”
Before leaving the Government last year, Lord Frost served in a Cabinet position under Mr. Johnson, but he made it clear that he would not want to return to the position of senior minister while still serving in the House of Lords.
When a senior minister is absent from the elected House for an extended length of time, I don’t believe our system functions very effectively, he said.
The constitution operates according to the principle of basic justice.
Lord Frost is well-liked by the Conservative Party’s base and has lately spoken out on matters like climate change.
Before being appointed to a Cabinet position in March of last year, he worked as the PM’s principal Brexit negotiator.
The peer eventually resigned from his position, criticising the “direction of travel” taken by Mr. Johnson’s government with regard to Covid limitations, net-zero goals, and tax increases.
Lord Frost said that his departure was partly influenced by a sense of being “stymied” in conversations over Brexit strategy.
Would it have compelled me to leave all by itself? Not necessarily; I believe I still believed we were making progress and acting morally.
Lord Frost is backing Ms Truss in the Tory leadership campaign and has commended the Foreign Secretary for recognising a ‘need for dramatic change’.
Additionally, he had a role in last month’s failure of her competitor Penny Mordaunt’s leadership bid.
When they collaborated in government, according to Lord Frost, Ms. Mordaunt was “missing on parade.”
During his discussions with the EU, he disclosed how he told Mr. Johnson to “move her on and find someone else to back me.”