A new relationship for the overseas territories?

While most of the world has been focused on the outcome of the US presidential elections, other events of long-term importance to the region have been taking place. Of these, one of the more significant relates to the relationship between the UK and its overseas territories (OTs), which could eventually become subject to change.

20110320viewfromeuropeAlthough, for a while now, some like the British Virgin Islands have been signalling that they want constitutional advance and are weighing the merits of self-determination ‒ about which more later ‒ it is clear that all of Britain’s overseas territories have found the British vote to leave the European Union, at the very least challenging, and for some potentially game changing.