Can Lord Frost save the Union?

Lord Frost is tipped to head up the Cabinet Office under Liz Truss, making him the Prime Minister’s point man on the constitution. Is he the right man for the job? It’s hard to tell. He was willing to say what others wouldn’t about the Northern Ireland Protocol and the government has been nowhere on that matter since he left. He recently penned a piece on the looming constitutional crisis in Scotland, making him perhaps the only senior Westminster figure aware there is a looming constitutional crisis in Scotland.

On the other hand, Unionists have been burned before. I remember one chump who heralded Michael Gove as the man to secure the Union. Gove, a political operator of undoubted (and underused) talents, ultimately followed the well-trodden path of Gordon Brown and David Cameron. Which is to say: meeting the Scottish government half-way so it could more easily stick two fingers up in Westminster’s face.