Stephen Doughty, the Foreign Office minister, said the UK would ‘allay’ any US concerns over a deal agreed this year for the Chagos Islands to be returned to Mauritius.
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Doughty responded to a question from Nigel Farage, when he explained that an agreement with Mauritius was ‘inevitable’ after the UN’s top court ruled that the UK did not have sovereignty over the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Doughty told MPs: ‘We’re looking very forward to working with [the incoming Trump administration], and I’m sure that they will be being briefed on the full detail of this deal. And I am confident that the details of this arrangement will allay any concerns’
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Mr Farage, Mauritius is closer to the Chagos islands than Britain is.
I presume everyone knows the Chagos Islands are right in the middle of all the Indian Ocean shipping lanes.
Forget about chagos island trump is coming for y'all Brits.
You cannot allay the actual corruption of this labour government
corbyn the worst
prime minister
we never
had
Chagos island are the Chinese reward for fiddling the election for labout to win.
If uk can claim chagos and you can even justify this
Then by this logic Ukraine belongs to russia & tiwan belongs to china , south korea belongs to notth korea
Remember Hong Kong ?
Militarily it is a Strategic asset, why would we want to lose it to the likes of China?
The labour govenment are out of control!
Giving away part of our sovereignty when parliament was closed. Dirty labour. They weren't put into power for this and anything else they are doing. GET OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT LABOUR
Why annexing Chagos to Mauritius against their will
LOL SD another weak wristed pleb being told what to do
Our most popular right wing politician in the country standing in front of the most popular left wing politician in the country. Neither lead the Tory or Labour Party. What does that say about the two main parties? Out of touch.
Only a spiteful turncoat like Starmlin would give it away and then lease it back while claiming a £22bn 'black hole'. Starmlin hates the UK imo.
I like how he mentions the distance, how far are all the others who claim ownership?
Malign Government.
Another group of islands that we shouldn't have had in the first place
What about the people that live there!
Corbyn's face says it all…
The definition of labour is lying in plain sight, it’s their forte.
Why should starmer still be in power after he was found out taking money that’s called bribery in my book he’s got to go we should have a no confidence vote on labour they should all go if they knew he took bribes or can I phone starmer and ask for a clothes allowance
Why is Labour putting the sovereignty of anyone else over that of British sovereignty?
Jeremy Corbyn it’s to us Chagossians all around the world to decide about our islands not only to a chagossian group in Mauritius you are close to 🙄
Farage should have been in power now he’s like the old primeminister
Another Labour spiteful decision…..they don’t give a toss about the local people much like the British people…..4 years of this 💩
the labour partys scam is about to be revealed
It never belonged to us we stole it.
The Labour tools use that word a lot "inherited" well they haven`t done or said anything what makes sense yet.
Betrayal by the oaf Lammy and Dictator Starmer
Its amazing. They stand up. look the speaker in the eye. and tell a load of phukin' lies.
The US should see labour for what they are hostile to trumps government and Trump labours words about trump prove this
Never trust labour
Uk like a cheap USA colony. Cheap