Chagos Islanders have launched a last-ditch appeal to Donald Trump, urging him to block Labour's £30billion deal to ...

Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos "surrender bill" has suffered another massive blow after peers voted to kick it back to MPs.

In May 2025 the British government agreed to give sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key ...

Exclusive: Louis Misley Mandarin, the interim first minister of the Chagossian government in exile, spoke to The Independent ...

The Chagos Archipelago constitutes one of the world’s most important and unspoilt natural environments. Far away from centres ...

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million annually during the 99-year agreement to lease back the site ...

Peers have backed an amendment, which was led by former military chiefs, which has left Starmer’s controversial Chagos deal ...

Plans to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will return to the Commons, after the House of Lords ...

Donald Trump can still stop Starmer’s shameful Chagos surrender. The White House has never explicitly endorsed the agreement ...

Tue, Jan 6, 2026 Patriotic peers have defeated the government four separate times in crucial votes on the Chagos Islands ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a huge blow over the government’s controversial move to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

As Parliament reviews the transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, US access to the Diego Garcia base is no longer ...