When Sir Keir Starmer announced in October that he had reached an agreement with Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing renewed pressure to abandon the proposed Chagos Islands deal after Mauritius's newly elected ...

Diego Garcia is one of more than a dozen strategic outposts deemed vital to global security by contesting alliances. The main ...

The U.S. has described the base, which is home to about 2,500 mostly American personnel, as "an all but indispensable ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being ...

Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said ‘Starmer and Lammy need to come to their senses and ditch the deal’ ...

In politics, there is usually something to be said for any course of action, even if it is not necessarily the one that one ...

The Chagos archipelago and the Diego Garcia base are strategically located in the Indian Ocean, and the West is fearful they could fall under the influence of a pro-China Mauritius administration ...

The new Mauritius government wants better terms over the control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing fresh calls to abandon his surrender of the Chagos Islands after the new leaders of Mauritius rejected the proposed deal. Downing Street insists that the controversial ...

The agreement to give away islands after 200 years of British rule was one of Sir Keir Starmer’s first major foreign policy ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being held up over the amount of money involved. Under the terms of the ...