Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

The Government has denied agreeing to double the amount it will pay Mauritius in a deal to keep control of a military base on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

TOP secret national security concerns lie behind PM Sir Keir Starmer’s willingness to pay billions to Mauritius to take over the Chagos Islands. Sir Keir told MPs international legal rulings on ...

The Reform UK leader claimed Starmer’s government ‘lied’ over why it wanted to hand over the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius ...

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

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Sir Keir Starmer warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands and the strategically important Diego Garcia military base ...

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing ...