Brexit is working and naysayers have axes to grind, claims David Frost

UK's former chief negotiator launches staunch defence of Brexit on sixth anniversary of EU referendum

Brexit is working and anyone who says it has hit the economy and trade has an axe to grind, the former Brexit negotiator David Frost has said on the sixth anniversary of the UK voting to leave the EU.

Lord Frost stopped short of painting a picture of sunny uplands" but said official figures used to predict a 4% decline in output caused by Brexit were zombie" numbers, based on academic studies of former communist countries, and not fact.