British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted that she would never allow Gibraltar to slip from British control against the wishes of Gibraltarians as the issue took centre-stage in early Brexit wranglings.
May told Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo that they will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.
According to reports, European Union says that Spain would have to agree to extend any trade deal between the bloc and Britain to also cover the 6.7-square-kilometre of the British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain.
May told Picardo that she would never “enter into a process of sovereignty negotiations with which Gibraltar is not content.
British foreign minister Boris Johnson today stressed that the territory “will not be bargained away.
The peninsula is home to about 33,000 people, with a key electronic gambling industry and offshore finance sector that deals with the whole of Europe.
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