Navin Ramgoolam says the acceptance of a US presence shows he is willing to find common ground.

As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

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

Taxpayer money spent on bespoke programme despite country’s demands for Britain to give up the Indian Ocean territory ...

President Trump's intervention could see further delays after the UK and Mauritius reached a deal on the territory, pending ...

UK taxpayers spent £1.3 million out of the foreign aid budget on a diversity scheme in Mauritius amid negotiations over the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

Keir Starmer has insisted that a deal on the 'legal certainty' of the Chagos Islands is 'vital to national security'.