The U.S. Shouldn’t Have To Stop Britain’s Disastrous Chagos Deal
If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much as President Trump uses unpredictability as a diplomatic tool, I can predict one thing for sure: there is no way he will allow Britain to give up its sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.
Britain Denies Reports It Will Pay More to Finalise Chagos Islands Deal
Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius - a former colony that became independent in 1968 - while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago.
A satellite communications system used by the US and UK to run military operations is central to efforts by Britain to ...
Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...
Cabinet minister Lucy Powell lost her cool on the BBC today amid a tense Chagos showdown with the Tory spokesman.
Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...
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UK says ‘no change’ to terms in Chagos dealThe British government was grilled in parliament yesterday as it denied claims by Mauritius that a new deal to return the ...
BENDING the knee is one of Sir Keir Starmer’s favourite exercises. Nothing illustrates his abject impulse for appeasement ...
Progress on the Chagos deal has slowed since Donald Trump was consulted on it, despite previous efforts to get it signed ...
Commenting on Starmer's plans to push ahead with the Chagos deal, Calum Miller MP, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, said: ...
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