Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...
Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...
The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...
and the vestiges of the British empire – both of which are neatly united in the Chagos archipelago. The whole reason Lefty lawyers – Starmer included – have campaigned against UK sovereignty ...
The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...
The British colonised Chagos Islands are a remote but strategically important archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It had been part of Mauritius which itself was a British colony.
The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...
The Chagos archipelago, he said, was “a portion of our territory of which very few people knew, … which is very far from here, and which we had never visited”. He also said that Mauritius had ...
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 base could ...
Is Daylight Saving Time (DST) in effect in British Indian Ocean Territory?