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		</div><p>Spain has signalled it is preparing a fresh push over the sovereignty of Gibraltar as the Brexit talks enter a new phase of negotiations.</p>
<p>Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez claimed the Withdrawal Agreement, signed off by EU leaders in Brussels on Sunday, represented a win for his country in the 300-year-old dispute over the Rock.</p>
<blockquote><p>In relation to Gibraltar, Spain wins, and Europe wins</p></blockquote>
<p>“With the departure of the UK we all lose, especially the UK. But in relation to Gibraltar, Spain wins, and Europe wins,” he told an end-of-summit press conference.</p>
<p>Mr Sanchez had earlier threatened to scupper the special summit to approve the deal unless he received fresh assurances on the status of the Rock in the forthcoming talks on a free trade deal between Britain and the EU.</p>
<p>The Spanish leader was pressing for Madrid to have a veto over how any UK-EU trade deal applies to Gibraltar.</p>
<p>In an effort to resolve the row, the UK’s ambassador to the EU Sir Tim Barrow issued a letter on Saturday confirming the Withdrawal Agreement imposed no obligations regarding the “territorial scope” of future agreements.</p>
<figure id="attachment_121192" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121192" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BB7D5B8F-3D13-42E9-8E2B-9BAF612F860C.jpeg"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BB7D5B8F-3D13-42E9-8E2B-9BAF612F860C.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="394" class="size-full wp-image-121192" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121192" class="wp-caption-text">Theresa May has said Gibraltar will remain British</figcaption></figure>
<p>Theresa May again insisted that it made no difference to constitutional status of the Rock. “Let no one be in any doubt. For the future partnership the UK will be negotiating for the whole UK family, including Gibraltar,” she said.</p>
<p>“I am proud that Gibraltar is British and its constitutional position will not change.” But asked whether Spain would now seek co-sovereignty of Gibraltar during the negotiations, Mr Sanchez said that his government planned to “talk about everything”.</p>
<p>There were signs of irritation among other EU member states at the way Mr Sanchez had raised the issue at the eleventh hour, threatening to derail Mrs May’s hopes of putting the deal to Parliament before Christmas.</p>
<p>The move came ahead of elections in Andalusia, southern Spain, in December with speculation that Mr Sanchez was trying to use the situation for internal political reasons. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker acknowledged they had had “a difficulty with our Spanish friends” at the end of the process.</p>
<p>He added: “The agreement we have obtained here today is an agreement which is good for Spain, so we are with Spain.”</p>
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