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.
Commenting on the ever-present Gibraltar – Spain dispute from an almost entirely uninvolved perspective, Luke Coffey, a Margaret Thatcher fellow of the US Conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, today published a research piece on ‘Why the US Should Back British Sovereignty over Gibraltar’.
Following this week’s announcement of the GFA National A Team’s line up for the upcoming friendlies with the Faroe Islands and Estonia, a number of players have withdrawn from the squads.
The GSD is calling on the Government to state what progress, if any, has been achieved on the increase of limits for qualification of legal aid and assistance as set out in the GSLP’s 2011 manifesto.
Selwyn Figueras, Shadow Minister for Justice, explained that ‘the only progress the Government has made on this agenda is the extension of legal assistance in complex cases involving fraud. That extension currently applies to one case, which is ongoing.