Chief Minister Congratulates Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary - 645/2025

The Chief Minister of His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar, the Hon Fabian Picardo KC MP, has written to the new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice, Rt Hon David Lammy MP, to thank him for his support of Gibraltar in work as Foreign Secretary. Mr Lammy was Foreign Secretary in June when the UK and the European Union, together with Spain and Gibraltar, reached agreement in the terms of the UK/EU Treaty to govern the future relationship of Gibraltar with the EU.

The Chief Minister has also written to Rt Hon Mrs Yvette Cooper to congratulate her on her appointment as Foreign Secretary and to thank her for her support of the Gibraltar Negotiating Team whilst she was Home Secretary.

Mr Picardo said: "David has been a great friend and a huge support in the final stretches of the negotiation of the agreement with Spain and the EU and I am as grateful for his political support and hard work as I am for his enduring friendship and personal support in his time as shadow Foreign Secretary and in the crucial period he was substantively in post in the Foreign Office. Yvette knows the Gibraltar issues well from her role in the Home Office as Home Secretary and will be familiar with the detail of immigration related issues that the technical text of our draft Treaty involves. I have written to both and look forward to continuing to work with both of them in the new roles in Government."