5 days ago · Keir Starmer is grilled on the government's plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while maintaining a 99-year lease over a UK-US military airbase there. Tory leader ...

5 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire at PMQs over the cost of the government's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Earlier, the UK said newspaper reports that the effective price ...

4 days ago · S ir Keir Starmer was hosted at a five-star hotel in Mauritius shortly before entering politics, meeting senior politicians including the country’s prime minister and discussing the Chagos Islands with lawyers.. Starmer was a distinguished guest at a conference hosted by the Mauritius Bar Association at the InterContinental Balaclava, a luxury beach resort outside Port Louis, the capital, in ...

6 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire at PMQs over the cost of the government's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

5 days ago · LONDON — A tiny group of islands more than 6,000 miles from the U.K. has given Keir Starmer’s government an almighty headache that shows little sign of easing. 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 ...

6 days ago · Keir Starmer has been accused of “traitorous levels of national sabotage” after it emerged he is planning to “push ahead” with the handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Navin ...

5 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands. A row has erupted over the future of the...

Oct 3, 2024 · U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth hailed a "seminal moment" Thursday as a political agreement was struck on the future of the islands, which have been called Britain's last African colony and are home to a crucial U.S. and U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.

6 days ago · A new agreement offers Mauritius complete sovereignty over Diego Garcia, effectively doubling the initial £9 billion offer, the country’s prime minister said

Jan 31, 2025 · 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.