Governor walks out on Gibraltar

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Governor walks out on Gibraltar
May 27, 2015
By Joe Garcia

The Governor Sir James Dutton called it a day yesterday - and walked out onto the Convent garden to make his formal address, accompanied by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.

He cut short his three-year contract with the Foreign Office, because the role of Governor was not what he had thought it would be. This job is now of a ceremonial and representational nature, which clearly does not fit the ambitions of an ‘action man’ who has seen military service at a distinguished level in places like Afghanistan, and who at 61 considers he remains young enough to search for a more active future.

This is the way he put it: “Our decision has been made for purely personal and professional reasons and is no reflection on the Rock or its great people.”

Is it a reflection of what the Foreign Office wants? He did admit that tension between what the FCO wants and what Gibraltar wants has always featured, but he stepped back from declaring war on his masters, something which other incumbents at The Convent had not shied away from.