How would a no-deal Brexit impact British Overseas Territories?

As Britain anxiously waits to see if the government will do as it threatens, and crash out of the European Union without a deal at the end of the month, nowhere are the consequences of Brexit more widely feared than in the last vestiges of the British Empire.

Be they Caribbean islands with red phone boxes, craggy islands in the English Channel or a frozen outpost in Antarctica, the Union flag still flies in 14 British Overseas Territories, many of them thousands of miles from London in some of the most remote parts of the planet.

Will they be the first to be flattened in a no-deal Brexit earthquake - or will they prosper?

“From our perspective, we feel confident that the overseas territories are prepared for Brexit,” said a spokesman for the non-partisan and non-profit organisation Friends of the British Overseas Territories.

“However, we understand their concerns and we have been working constructively with the Foreign Office to raise those concerns as frequently as possible.”

There are an estimated 265,000 British Overseas Territories passport holders, with rights similar to Hong Kong’s BNO passports.

Only 32,000 Gibraltarians were allowed to take part in the EU ballot, and only after litigation. A resounding 96 per cent voted to stay in the EU.