Politics

But is it a promotion, or a poisoned chalice?

“If the UK government can’t or won’t act, then unionism will and soon," the DUP has warned.

Increases in exports to countries like China and the UAE only account for a small proportion of what Britain would have traded with the EU before Brexit.

"The North will not be collateral damage in the Tory chaos," Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill said.

Sir Ed said there was a “real chance” of getting the Prime Minister out of office in the next election.

“The showers in here are different to Eton," one proposed caption read.

“On all matters EU, he had a keen sense of how and when to push things further - often the tempering voice advising the prime minister that a little more time was needed," Nikki da Costa said in a tribute to Brexit Sec David Frost following his resignation.

Before the referendum more than five years ago, Frost admitted no Brexit scenario could be as good as being part of the EU. Now, he left at one of the most sensitive moments of negotiations with the EU, which were focusing on Northern Ireland.

Lord Frost claimed he was resigning because of growing 'disillusionment' with the ‘direction’ of Tory policy - but an EU diplomat suggested there may be another reason.