Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal ...

In a humiliating climb down, Keir Starmer has reportedly suspended his foolhardy plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to ...

As Mauritius and the UK scramble to finalise the terms of a treaty to hand over the Chagos Islands before Donald Trump ...

The UK will not sign off on a deal to give up a top secret island to Mauritius until Donald Trump has taken office, Downing ...

Islanders questioned whether the PM was prioritising victory for his ‘great friend’ Philippe Sands by rushing through pact ...

The shadow foreign secretary on Labour’s naivety over China, Trump’s greatest strength and why the UK desperately needs ...

A trait I’ve noticed in the Labour Government since they’ve been in office is not admitting mistakes when they’ve been made.

Sir Keir Starmer's only been at the helm of this country for six months and yet in that time he's managed to cast a shadow ...

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

Conservative Post editor Claire Bullivant, one of the letter’s organisers and signatories, told The Independent that the campaign had wider significance beyond the row over the Chagos Islands.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.