Speaking at an event at Queen Mary, University of London on Thursday, Clegg said that Gibraltar had been put in “the most impossible position”, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.
“The fate of Gibraltar will be at the very bottom of the list of preoccupations of Theresa May when she is in those negotiations,” he said.
Clegg urged Gibraltar to be “very ferocious and uncharacteristically uncompromising in your demands of London”.
“The fact that the prime minister has chosen to persist with the hardest, more remorseless and unforgiving form of Brexit just demonstrates how… Never mind Gibraltar; she doesn’t care about Scottish opinion; Northern Irish opinion; opinion, dare I say it, in London either,” he said.
Challenger
Clegg returned to frontline politics in July to spearhead the Liberal Democrats’ response to Brexit, which the party strongly opposed during the campaign.
His successor as Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said, “no one is better placed than Nick to challenge Theresa May, [and prominent Brexit supporters] Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis”.
