Trump backlash derails Starmer's Chagos plan
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Keir Starmer postponed the Chagos Islands bill after Donald Trump criticised Britain’s plan to hand the archipelago to Mauritius and lease back Diego Garcia, warning it could breach the 1966 UK–US treaty. With talks to update the treaty ongoing, ministers indicated the legislation cannot progress in Parliament until the legal and security implications are resolved.
- Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash The Telegraph
- Acquire territory, export culture wars: How to make sense of Trump’s ‘new imperialism’ France 24
- What are the Chagos Islands and why does Trump think Britain would be stupid to give them up? CNN
- Chagos Islands debate delayed as Tories call for halt to bill BBC
- Britain’s Chagos disposal looks like an idea out of time The Economist
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