Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of failing to guarantee the recently announced uplift in defence spending will not be spent on the contentious Chagos Islands deal. After initially refusing to set ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

After initially refusing to set out a timeline to increase ... in spending could be used to fund the Chagos deal, which would transfer the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius after a decades ...

the largest of the Chagos atolls. At present, a lease is not necessary because the archipelago is a British overseas territory. Ministers were forced to deny that the deal could in fact be worth ...

Negotiations between Mauritius and the UK over the Chagos Archipelago are progressing, with the newly elected Mauritian ...

Mauritius, under a new government, is negotiating with the UK to regain sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, crucial for ...