Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal is on the brink of collapse - with an envoy having been sent in a bid to salvage the agreement.
Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal is on the brink of collapse - with an envoy having been sent in a bid to salvage the agreement. The UK's national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, has been sent on a last-minute tour to help seal the deal.It comes after allies of Donald Trump and new Mauritian prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, rejected it.As part of the deal, Britain will cede sovereignty over the archipelago to the Mauritian government.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has since dismissed criticism over the deal as "politicking" before elections."I'm very, very confident that this is a deal that the Mauritians will see, in a cross-party sense, as a good deal for them," Mr Lammy said.At the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Tory former Cabinet minister Sir John Whittingdale said the Mauritian leader had described the agreement as "high treason and a sellout".
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