Political status and decolonisation

Anguilla political status: current status

Where the question stood on 22 September 2026: Anguilla remains a British Overseas Territory, with its historical separation from Saint Kitts fully resolved since 1980.

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Status verified as of 22 September 2026. Political positions change; this explainer describes the documented position on that date.

Current position

Anguilla remains a British Overseas Territory, formally separated from Saint Kitts-Nevis since 1980. No current independence campaign from the United Kingdom is documented in the sources reviewed.[1]

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    Claim: Anguilla was formally separated from Saint Kitts-Nevis on 19 December 1980, becoming a distinct British dependency (today a British Overseas Territory); no current independence campaign from the United Kingdom is documented in the sources reviewed.

    • Republic of Anguilla (Wikipedia) link, 1980 formal separation section. Source record

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