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  Flashman keen to call up for assistance from EU again.........
  
  David Cameron asks EU president Jose Manuel Barroso to urgently send monitors to Gibraltar border
  
  Prime Minister says Spain's border checks are 'politically motivated and disproportionate
  
  David Cameron has accused Spain of imposing "politically motivated and disproportionate" border
  
  checks on people entering and leaving Gibraltar - as he called for the EU to intervene in the dispute.
  
  In a significant escalation in the diplomatic row between Britain and Spain, Mr Cameron telephoned
  
  the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, to raise "serious concerns" over the
  
  checks, which he claimed broke EU rules on freedom of movement.
  
  The Prime Minister said the United Kingdom was now considering legal action against Spain, and
  
  revealed that the Government was "collating evidence" of the "sporadic nature" of the Spanish checks
  
  to "prove that they are illegitimate".
  
  Last week Mr Cameron had appeared keen to defuse the row following a telephone call with his
  
  Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy. But with long border queues continuing and Spain claiming
  
  that Gibraltar has not controlled smuggling Downing Street said that Mr Cameron had decided to
  
  officially call for EU intervention

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