{"id":801692,"date":"2026-03-03T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:24","slug":"ft-wrongly-calls-chagos-islands-dependencies-of-mauritius-and-blames-brexit-for-starmers-deal-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801692\/","title":{"rendered":"FT Wrongly Calls Chagos Islands &#8216;Dependencies of Mauritius&#8217; and Blames Brexit for Starmer&#8217;s Deal \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bonanza for financially-minded Chagos-followers on Saturday as the FT dedicated a long-read to the topic in its weekend edition. The only problem: the piece was riddled with errors\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The article described \u201cthe Chagos Islands, once neglected dependencies of Mauritius\u201d. No, the Chagos Islands have never been under the sovereignty of an independent Mauritius\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It continued: \u201cThe evicted Chagossians campaigned for decades; their case was pressed by Mauritius, which argued Britain had violated international law by dividing the territory before decolonisation.\u201d The Chagossians certainly can\u2019t remember their case being pressed by Mauritius -hello Philippe Sands?<\/p>\n<p>The paper reaches peak FT when it somehow blames Brexit for the Starmer Chagos deal disaster: \u201cThe chaos of the Brexit years damaged Britain\u2019s reputation so much that Starmer\u2019s government has understandably decided it must prioritise international legal obligations.\u201d An unusually exotic case of BDS\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a bonanza for financially-minded Chagos-followers on Saturday as the FT dedicated a long-read to the topic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,13077,2000,299,5187,1699,29861,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-801692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-chagos","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-financial-times","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116166552910969264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}