5 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire at PMQs over the cost of the government's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Earlier, the UK said newspaper reports that the effective price ...

6 days ago · Keir Starmer is grilled on the government's plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while maintaining a 99-year lease over a UK-US military airbase there Tory leader Kemi ...

6 days ago · Under the terms of the deal, the UK will continue to lease one of the islands, Diego Garcia, which contains a UK-US military airbase, for a period of 99 years. UK's Chagos deal on hold to allow ...

5 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands. A row has erupted over the future of the remote...

5 days ago · Starmer “has the audacity to tell the British people they will foot the bill and pay for the indignity of his surrender of the Chagos Islands, as he isolates the new U.S. administration by bending the knee to Mauritius and emboldening our enemies with his disastrous surrender deal,” said Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel.

6 days ago · A new agreement offers Mauritius complete sovereignty over Diego Garcia, effectively doubling the initial £9 billion offer, the country’s prime minister said

Jan 31, 2025 · British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong protections", including from "malign influence", for a U.S.-British military...

Jan 31, 2025 · The prime minister has pressed Mauritius on the need for the Chagos Islands deal to allow "strong protections" for the UK-US military base there.

Nov 27, 2024 · Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal is on the brink of collapse - with an envoy having been sent in a bid to salvage the agreement.

Oct 3, 2024 · U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth hailed a "seminal moment" Thursday as a political agreement was struck on the future of the islands, which have been called Britain's last African colony and are home to a crucial U.S. and U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.