Starmer took Mohindra’s question as an excuse to make this point decisively, citing “suitcases of booze into Downing Street” ...

He is cut from exactly the same ideological cloth as Philippe Sands KC, who has taken gazillions to represent Mauritius against Britain in the matter of the Chagos islands. As it happens ...

A statement released by Reform UK read: “There are absolutely no circumstances in which Reform would ever do a pact with ...

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The dispute over the Chagos Islands - home to the US military base ... He did not dispute a report that Britain's former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had called him personally to pressure ...

Keir Starmer has insisted that a deal on the 'legal certainty' of the Chagos Islands is 'vital to national security'. The government is planning to hand the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius ...

In October, the Government announced that Mauritius will be sovereign over the Chagos islands, and then lease back the Diego Garcia military base. But allies of US president-elect Donald Trump ...

The UK is “mid-negotiation” on a revised deal to hand back the Chagos Islands, a minister has said. Reports had suggested that Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam is holding a special ...

Sir Keir Starmer “intends to push ahead” with the deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, the prime minister of Mauritius has told his parliament. The UK announced in October it would cede ...

Donald Trump may still veto Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, despite the PM’s plans to push ahead with the deal. With reports that the UK and ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

UK Says a Deal on the Chagos Islands Won't Be Finalized Until Trump Is Consulted LONDON (AP) — Britain's government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty ...