Starmer under fire amid row over cost of Chagos Islands deal
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 ...
Starmer and Badenoch clash over Chagos Islands deal at PMQs
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 Kemi ...
Starmer under fire amid row over Chagos deal cost - BBC
6 days ago · Starmer under fire amid row over Chagos deal cost. Image source, UK Parliament. ... 5 February 2025. Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire at PMQs over the cost of the government's deal to hand ...
Keir Starmer and his five-star Mauritius trip discussing ‘the Chagos …
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 ...
Starmer and Badenoch clash at PMQs over multi-billion pound Chagos …
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...
Revealed: Sir Keir Starmer’s friend Philippe Sands is source of Chagos …
3 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer’s “national security” justification for handing over the Chagos islands was proposed by one of his closest friends, who represented Mauritius in a case against the UK. The ...
Starmer Faces UK Cabinet Disquiet Over Chagos Deal
6 days ago · The UK government said it wouldn’t provide any details on a proposed multibillion-pound deal to continue operating a military base in the Chagos archipelago once it cedes control of the islands...
Sir Keir Starmer ‘to push ahead’ with Chagos Islands deal
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
Chagos: Sir Keir Starmer urged to 'come clean' as PM 'makes …
Jan 14, 2025 · Sir Keir Starmer has been told to "come clean" on the true cost of the Chagos surrender after Mauritius suggested he has made concessions on the deal to get it over the line.
Britain’s handover of the Chagos Islands is pleasing nobody
5 days ago · Starmer “has the audacity to tell the British people they will foot the bill and pay for the indignity of his surrender of the Chagos Islands, as he isolates the new U.S. administration by bending the knee to Mauritius and emboldening our enemies with his disastrous surrender deal,” said Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel.