Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

In 1965 the UK detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and several Islands from the Seychelles and created the new British Indian Ocean Territory. Three years later Mauritius became an ...

Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is over 2,000 miles away from Iran and has an air base that hosts Space Force operations and is ...

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago with Diego Garcia has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition Decades of dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian ...

The order, granted at 2.25am, states the government may take "no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of the British Indian Ocean ...

Keir Starmer was dramatically blocked from signing a deal to give away the Chagos Islands today. The Prime Minister had hoped to announce the highly controversial handover of the Indian Ocean ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that the deal, which will transfer the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius, has the endorsement of President Donald Trump.