A Labour minister has squirmed under pressure after being questioned about the Government's plans to hand over of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell will discuss a proposed deal over the Chagos Islands with his US counterpart Mike Waltz in Washington this week, according to people familiar with ...

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

Mauritius, a China ally, is on course to take control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. But the deal remains on ice until Mr ...

The UK government has dismissed claims by Mauritius’ prime minister that it will pay billions more under a renegotiated ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

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. Sir Keir Starmer spoke to his Mauritian ...

Sir Keir Starmer has told the Mauritian leader that the deal to give away the Chagos Islands must not aid China’s “malign influence”. The Prime Minister also urged Mauritius to ensure the ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...

Dame Priti Patel and Richard Tice are among those who have roundly condemned Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius - with the shadow Foreign Secretary claiming the ...