The investigative series.
Surplus to Requirements. When Spain closed the border with Gibraltar in 1969 and recalled its nationals, the British authorities faced a labour crisis.
They solved it by importing thousands of workers from nearby Morocco.
Twenty-three years later, many of those men and women still live on the Rock. But they are treated as second-class citizens, living in squalid conditions, on temporary work permits and denied basic human rights. Now, after a lifetime of loyalty to the British and Gibraltarian authorities, they face the threat of deportation. David Jessel asks why those who were once vital to our national interests are now being quietly discarded. Producer Kevin Sutcliffe
Series producer Steve Haywood
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