As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

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Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal risks British ... The islands are known officially as the British Indian Ocean Territory, and are run by a British civilian commissioner and Royal Navy ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

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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 US military could build the Diego Garcia base.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, which it called the British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then-colony Mauritius in 1965 — three years before the archipelago gained independence.

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos ... to hand the British Indian Ocean Territory to ...