Instead, the crossbench peer said Sir Keir should explore handing control of the Chagos Islands to the US, adding that it is in the Americans’ interests to maintain control of it. Asked whether ...

In its written submission to the ICJ on Chagos, China said it supported the “decolonisation” of the territory. The Chagos Islands have never been under Mauritian control and were separate ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands is so “outlandish and irrational” the Government could be challenged over it in court, a former attorney general has warned.

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

A judge working for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the UK over the Chagos Islands is a former Chinese Government official. Xue Hanqin backed a majority verdict at the ...

Sir Keir Starmer should scrap his plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and consider ceding control to the US instead, the former head of the British army has said. Lord Dannatt, former chief ...

Despite its strategic significance, the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is preparing to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. This decision ...

Sir Julian, the MP for New Forest East, asked: “If President Trump offered to cancel the tariff on steel imports in return for the UK throwing in the dustbin the appalling Chagos giveaway deal ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White House they may have to wait a little longer. Late last year ...

A minister has declined to say whether the Government could swerve US tariffs on British steel by throwing the Chagos deal “in the dustbin”. Douglas Alexander described the suggestion as a ...

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A minister has declined to say whether the Government could swerve US tariffs on British steel by throwing the Chagos deal “in the dustbin”. Douglas Alexander described the suggestion as a ...