Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d for the Chagossians on \u00cele du Coin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, said: \u201cKeir Starmer\u2019s \u00a335bn Chagos surrender is a complete betrayal, and throughout the process he has sought to sideline the Chagossian people, treating them as nothing but an inconvenience.<\/p>\n
\u201cChagossians, many of whom have no desire to see the islands handed over to an ally of China, ended up taking matters into their own hands, and now this latest humiliation has further undermined the Government\u2019s case.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of Sir Keir\u2019s deal, Britain is set to rent back the island of Diego Garcia, which houses a joint military base with the US, at a cost of more than \u00a330bn over the next 99 years.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has repeatedly flipped between supporting the handover and opposing it. In January, the US president called it an act of \u201cgreat stupidity\u201d, but later said he believed the agreement was the best Sir Keir could have struck to maintain control of the base amid legal challenges from Mauritius in the international courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d for the Chagossians on \u00cele du Coin.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1586,1583,1581,1582,94,1587,1585,1584,18,330,5,1182,6,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-2290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-apple-news-free","9":"tag-chagos-islands","10":"tag-foreign-amp-commonwealth-office","11":"tag-indian-ocean","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-live-amp-breaking","14":"tag-live-priority","15":"tag-mauritius","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-standard","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-us-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}