Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.

This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.

It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.

This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.

It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.

If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty.