The real reasons for the UK’s stern warning against the Falklands

The announcement comes after Spain’s far-right Vox party demanded earlier this month the “immediate release of Gibraltar”. Territorial sovereignty was excluded from the discussion of the Brexi and, following the post-Brexit relationship between London and the European Union (EU), unleashing unrest in the most conservative Spanish sectors.

Vox, through his representatives from Andalusia, presented a plan to Congress not to ratify the agreement with London if the question of sovereignty in this region is not changed.

The tension on Gibraltar has forced the president of the Spanish government himself, Pedro Sanchez, to defend its dialogist position. “Gibraltar’s future should not be an irritating factor in our bilateral relations,” he said in early March.

Instead, it can serve as an example of “how we view the UK’s relationship with the EU and with Spain,” he said.

As far as Gibraltar is concerned, Boris Johnson’s new plan underscores the need to “deter and defy incursions into British territorial waters off Gibraltar”.

Like the Falkland Islands, the sovereignty of the Rock, which lies in the far south of Spain and has been under the control of the United Kingdom since 1713, remains in dispute, the Daily Express recalled.

Spanish warships regularly sail the seas around Gibraltar in what London considers acts of aggression.