This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish. -Michael Ancram

 

This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.


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Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.

Michael Ancram

This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.

Michael Ancram

It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.

Michael Ancram

Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority.

Michael Ancram