There has been scepticism about the proposed deal among allies of Mr Trump, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, but the ...

Sir Keir Starmer should scrap his plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and consider ceding control to the US instead ...

Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch says 'the country loses' through Labour negotiations as she grills Starmer over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luquin. Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their long-running dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the central ...

Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal will cost the British taxpayer £52bn over 99 years. The Reform UK leader made the claim at a rally in Wiltshire today. He also took ...

The UK has denied the cost of handing over the Chagos Islands could rise to £18 billion and disputed claims made by the Mauritian Prime Minister about the renegotiated deal. Mauritian Prime ...

But both accept they must also get the approval of the United States, which operates a military base on the largest of the Chagos islands, Diego Garcia. Although Mauritius and Britain have agreed ...

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 ...