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Mr Lammy has doubled down claiming that the deal is a “good one” guaranteeing the use of the airbase for the next 99 years. But the government has refused to publish details and costs of the deal.
In response to Badenoch, Sir Keir told PMQs the Chagos Islands negotiations were started under the last Tory government and the proposed deal would ensure the military base can continue operating ...
A group of indigenous Chagossian people have instructed lawyers to challenge the controversial Chagos deal, in yet another blow to the government’s beleaguered agreement.. It comes as the deal ...
Describing the previous deal as a “sellout”, Mr Ramgoolam said the new deal was “unambiguous” on Mauritius’s sovereignty over the islands and that the UK’s annual payments under the ...
“Now I know he’s very keen on tariffs, and tariffs are being put on all over the world, and no doubt the EU is going to feel some of it, but with us he was very happy to have a free trade deal ...
The Chagos Archipelago. (Atolls with areas of dry land are named in green)The archipelago is about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi) east of the Seychelles, 1,680 kilometres (1,040 mi) north-east of Rodrigues Island (), 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) west of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and 3,400 kilometres (2,100 mi) north of Amsterdam Island.
At a time when public spending is under serious pressure, they are also signing up to spend billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money leasing back a site that is currently under our sovereignty.
Mr Francois said: “Yet more Chagos chaos from this government. Every few days another weakness in the so-called deal seems to emerge and now it appears the protections against a third country ...