Keir Starmer says the deal - which involves leasing the Diego Garcia base for 99 years, with the option of another 40 - is in the UK's national interest.

Sir Keir Starmer has signed over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after an earlier challenge was overturned, allowing the ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean that's home to a ...

Chagos-born Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice ... on the wider islands and a ban on foreign security forces on the islands. Negotiations on handing the islands to Mauritius began in 2022 under ...

After the UK government's negotiations to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius were blocked by a last-minute injunction, a UK court lifted the ban on the deal, which also provides for leasing a key US ...

A High Court judge has temporarily blocked Sir Keir Starmer from handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The Prime Minister was set to attend a “virtual signing ceremony” with representatives from ...

Keir Starmer had been temporarily banned signing off on the Chagos Islands deal by a High Court judge - but the injunction was lifted hours later after an emergency hearing ...

But the UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands have been convoluted and controversial, right up until the hours before they were agreed. London is paying billions to lose ...

The UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands have been convoluted and controversial. Starmer’s government announced its plans to sell the islands to the East African country ...