After two mind-numbing years Sir Keir Starmer bowed out yesterday with the bizarre assertion that he had left Britain in a better shape than he found it.
It's a preposterous thing to say, and no one except a small band of deluded Labour MPs will agree with him. The list of his failures is endless. Yet many of Starmer's severest critics have failed to notice his toxic parting gift.
Gibraltar, which has been in British hands for over 300 years, has virtually been handed to Spain by our outgoing Prime Minister. You might expect more political outrage but it has so far not emerged.
Since yesterday, British citizens arriving in Gibraltar – supposedly British territory – will be required to have their passports checked and fingerprints taken, as though they were visiting a European Union country.
Spanish travellers, by contrast, will be able to cross the border unhindered. (About 15,000 of them go to work daily in Gibraltar.) The border will be partly controlled by Spanish guards, who will demand that Britons submit to having their fingerprints taken.
