A Labour minister has squirmed under pressure after being questioned about the Government's plans to hand over of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell will discuss a proposed deal over the Chagos Islands with his US counterpart Mike Waltz in Washington this week, according to people familiar with ...

The UK government has dismissed claims by Mauritius’ prime minister that it will pay billions more under a renegotiated ...

Over the last couple of months, things have shifted slightly because of the rhetoric coming out of the White House and also the fact that President Trump’s talking about tariffs not just as a way of ...

David Lammy is to make a last-ditch attempt to persuade Donald Trump’s new administration to back Labour’s planned giveaway of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The Foreign Secretary will ...

David Lammy will meet Donald Trump’s secretary of state in a last-ditch effort to convince the US to back the Chagos Islands deal, The Telegraph understands. The Foreign Secretary is expected to meet ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...

Britain and its former colony reached a deal last October to hand back Chagos which it kept control of after Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s provided a UK-US military base remains on ...

Under the proposed agreement, the UK would hand over control of the Chagos Islands, the strategic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. The remote grouping includes Diego Garcia ...