Sir Keir Starmer said Diego Garcia is ‘vital to our national security ... was properly briefed “she knows exactly what I am talking about in terms of national security and legal certainty ...

National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a deal set to cost the UK taxpayer billions, Sir Keir Starmer said. The Government plans to cede ...

The Government plans to cede sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Ministers believe ...

“If we lose it we can still communicate, but so can others. ” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the ICJ’s advisory decision in 2019 had ‘no force of legal power whatsoever’ (House of Commons/UK ...