The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo met with the Leader of the Conservative Party,  Kemi Badenoch, during his visit to London this week. 

A statement from the Government follows below:

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo KC MP, met with the Leader of the Conservative Party,  the Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, during his visit to London this week. 

The meeting took place as part of the Chief Minister’s series of high-level engagements in the UK  capital surrounding Gibraltar Day in London. Discussions focused on Gibraltar’s close and historic  relationship with the United Kingdom, continued cooperation in business and trade, and the  shared commitment to prosperity and opportunity across the British family of nations. 

The Chief Minister said: “I was delighted to meet Kemi Badenoch and to hear her reaffirm the Conservative Party’s  steadfast commitment to Gibraltar. We share the same belief in building prosperity through  partnership, and in strengthening the enduring bond between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom  based on shared values, mutual respect and our British identity. 

I took the opportunity of our meeting to take Mrs Badenoch, at her request, through the issues  that arise in respect of the UK/EU Treaty. The Conservative leader was very interested to  understand the detail of the benefits to Gibraltar of the new proposed arrangements. I was very  grateful to see that she was genuinely interested in supporting Gibraltar, as has been the case with  her predecessors and the various Conservative Ministers and Shadow Ministers we have worked  with in the past 14 years, not least Priti Pattel and Wendy Morton, the current shadow Foreign  and Europe Ministers, respectively, and my dear friend James Cleverly, former Foreign Secretary."