The former Home Secretary Priti Patel has slammed Sir Keir Starmer over giving Mauritius “complete sovereignty” over Chagos and has the “audacity” to tell Brits “they will foot the bill.”
Starmer is set to “push ahead” with the deal and give Mauritius full sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and Diego Garcia is a vital US military base.
Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam said, “The British Prime Minister informed me he intends to push ahead with the agreement reached between Mauritius and the United Kingdom…We remain confident it will reach a speedy resolution in the coming weeks.”
The “traitorous” Labour leader has doubled the original £9 billion for the UK to lease Diego Garcia, The Times reports.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick wrote on X, “This is traitorous levels of national sabotage from Starmer.”
The Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel, “It seems Keir Starmer has learnt absolutely nothing – and is still putting his leftie shame of our country’s history over our national security, and our longstanding relationship with our closest ally.
“He has the audacity to tell the British people they will foot the bill and pay for the indignity of his surrender of the Chagos Islands, as he isolates the new US administration by bending the knee to Mauritius and emboldening our enemies with his disastrous surrender deal.
“Starmer and David Lammy must urgently explain their epic failure of diplomacy which is putting out special relationship at risk while they play pathetic gesture politics.”
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