British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong ...

Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

A British minister has dismissed media claims that the UK's lease payments for the Diego Garcia military base to Mauritius ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

A satellite communications system used by the US and UK to run military operations is central to efforts by Britain to ...

A senior advisor to President Donald Trump has revealed that the US is "reviewing" the UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...

An FCDO spokesperson said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty and ongoing ...

According to a Downing Street spokesperson, Starmer “underlined the need for a deal to secure the military base on Diego Garcia that ensures strong protections, including from malign influence, and ...

British prime minister Keir Starmer has urged Mauritius to ensure ‘strong protections’ for the UK-US military base on the Chagos island chain, notably that it […] ...

It has even been suggested that Starmer could have agreed to cough up £90million a year to keep control of the strategically important UK-US military base on Diego Garcia. Ramgoolam was understood to ...