the direction of travel of government policies and he pointed to taxes going up and spending. he said he was in favour of low tax and he pointed to covid restrictions and being made mandatory. he said he was against that sort of compulsion. what he didn t point to, interestingly, was areas in his own remit. there is not his remit in cabinet, his remit was the relationship with the eu and brexit negotiations. he had led this very sort of combative line towards brussels. what we had seen is that he had been insisting on this renegotiation, as you were just talking about, of the deal that he had done. he went back to brussels and said we need to change this. particularly all of europe and the european court ofjustice most of this week that the prime minister softened his position on the european court ofjustice having no part of the deal. now the uk is saying it could have a role in that. lord frost didn t mention any of that in his letter. but he talked