The Chancellor’s Budget may have gone down well with Labour backbenchers, but its ‘smorgasbord’ approach has managed to rather annoy a rather lot of people – including, it appears, those resident in Gibraltar. The gambling tax reforms announced by Rachel Reeves have sparked concerns about the impact these will have on the overseas territory. A scathing press release has been put out by the Friends of the British Overseas Territories (Fotbot) slamming the ‘severe overreach’ by the UK government that could lead to a ‘disproportionate impact’ on the territory. ‘There is no indication that the Government has considered how these decisions will affect the Overseas Territories,’ the organisation fumed. Oo er.

The statement didn’t end there. It went on:

In today’s UK Budget the Chancellor annou

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