The new Minister for Europe, Mr Leo Docherty MP will be visiting Gibraltar for National Day  and will give a speech as part of the rally in Casemates Square. 

A statement from the Office of the Mayor follows below:

Leo Docherty was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth &  Development Office on 7 September 2022. He was Minister for Defence People from July to  September 2022. He was previously Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Defence People  and Veterans) for the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence from April 2021 to July  2022. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Aldershot since 2017. 

Born in Scotland in 1976, he was brought up in Gloucestershire. After graduating from the  School of Oriental and African Studies he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst  and was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 2001. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan  with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards and 16 Air Assault Brigade.