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Get lost Gove! SPECIAL REPORT By Joe Duggan
GIBRALTAR has rounded on Michael Gove after he claimed Spain wouldn’t ‘show disdain’ towards the Rock after a Brexit. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and GSD leader Daniel Feetham joined forces to lash out at the Tory Justice Secretary, who made the shocking remark during a live TV debate. Weighing into the row, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, Hilary Benn, also slammed the ‘deeply worrying’ comments. Talking to the Olive Press exclusively, Benn said last night: "The way Michael Gove and the Leave campaign casually dismiss the risks to Gibraltar's security and economy is deeply worrying. “Furthermore, leaving the European
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people in any country where the British flag flies is that they know that their interests are best protected by strong and confident and independent Britain. “For that reason I think that the day
single market would more generally undermine the economy of Gibraltar and the family finances of its citizens.” He added: “That's why it's so important that Gibraltarians turn out and vote to Remain on June 23." Sir Graham Watson, EU counsel to Gi-
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“I don’t think it’s the case that Spain, having fought so hard to establish democracy, is now going to show disdain for democracy and for the people of Gibraltar. “And one of the things about the position of
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afterwards we’ll find that some of those politicians and others who’ve been warning us and perhaps feeding project fear will respect a democratic vote in the home of democracy.”
braltar, described Gove’s comments as ‘naive and negligent’. It comes as uncertainty over the crucial June 23 referendum sent the pound sliding, with sterling now more volatile than at any time since the Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008.
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Responding to a question about what would happen if Spain closed the border, Gove said: “I don’t think Spain is now going to show disdain for democracy and for the people of Gibraltar.” That, however, is unlikely to be the case, with Spain’s Foreign Minister Garcia-Margallo recently insisting a PP government would raise the subject of Gibraltar ‘the next day’ after a Brexit vote. Picardo said: “Michael Gove is 100% wrong about the Spanish government’s attitude to Gibraltar. Their threats for post-Brexit have been loud and clear.” His GSD rival, Feetham told the Olive Press: “Where has Gove been during the last three years when we had border queues of up to eight hours? “This is a huge cause for concern. The
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An aerial battle THE ONGOING political row over Gibraltar’s poor air quality took a new twist as the government attacked the opposition’s ‘energy non-policy’. During a fierce war of words over an alarming World Health Organisation report - revealed exclusively by the Olive Press last issue - shadow environment minister Trevor Hammond slammed the government for a failure to tackle car emissions. However, he himself came under attack when he praised the new power station as ‘promising’ after heavily opposing it in last year’s election campaign.
The government accused the GSD minister of ‘spreading fear’ about the technology, then suddenly making a ‘360-degree turn’. “He now welcomes the technology that will come with the new power station, even though the GSD based its whole election campaign on spreading fear among the community. “Hammond has today condemned the GSD’s antiquated energy non-policy and their fake election campaign.” Meanwhile, the government has revealed that fresh data will show ‘a downward trend in pollution’. It has also promised to do more to tackle pol-
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lution. MEP Julie Girling tweeted our front page to her thousands of followers the day she arrived in Gibraltar to discuss air quality.
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