Ex-Labour security minister in call to withdraw from ‘irresponsible’ Chagos Islands deal - Admiral Lord West of Spithead said ...

Surrendering UK sovereignty of the Chagos Islands is an “irresponsible act”, a Labour former minister has said, backing calls ...

Sir Keir Starmer stated at Prime Minister’s Questions this week that grooming gang survivors wanted “action” and not another ...

The UK government has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius in order to finalise the draft deal over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, according to people familiar with the ...

In the struggle for the right of return to the Chagos Islands, both the Conservatives and Labour parties (with the notable exception of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) were also equally complicit ...

The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant US military base. Will the Cocos Islands be ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer struck a deal with the then Mauritian government in October that his government said would secure ...

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy are reportedly on the verge of writing a cheque for hundreds of millions of pounds to ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

(Bloomberg) -- The UK rejected a report that a deal struck with Mauritius to cede sovereignty of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean to the African nation while retaining control of a key military ...

Downing Street has refused to reveal how much it has offered to pay Mauritius for a 99-year lease of the crucial ...