Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
During a series of questions answered by the Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday in Parliament, Ian Paisley MP asked Mr Hague whether he would be telling the Spanish ambassador in London (Federico Trillo) to “pack his sombrero, straw donkey and sangria, and go” if hostilities were to continue.
Me pueden llamar antipatriota, antiespañol o lo que quieran, pero a mis cincuenta y siete años he aprendido que las cosas son lo que son y que intentar maquillar la realidad no sirve para nada.
Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar will reply in detail in the coming days to the statements made by Spanish Foreign Minister, Snr Garcia Margallo this afternoon.
In the interim, the Government will immediately deal with the remarkable and untrue statements made both by Snr Garcia Margallo and the Spanish Minister of the Interior who have both said that "Gibraltar does nothing to control tobacco smuggling."