The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has asked Sir Keir Starmer why pensioners cannot have winter fuel payments but Mauritius is set to receive £18 billion.
Farage said that Labour MPs are “panicking” as he faced heckling in the House of Commons During Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs).
The Reform UK leader said in response to the barrage of heckling “they really are panicking.”
Farage asked in the Commons, “What do I say to 25,000 constituents in Clacton?” this includes a 99-year-old man who flew “a full set of missions” as a Lancaster bomber pilot during the war.
“They are losing their winter fuel allowance, feeling the pinch at the same time as we are giving away a military base” costing £18 billion?
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The Prime Minister told Farage he should tell his constituents to “vote Labour,” Farage said Labour MPs “really are panicking.
Farage said in an urgent call with Labour that there “no legal basis on which we have to give away the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands” and the deal should be axed.
He added, “When the Americans wake up to the fact that this has been done wholly unnecessarily, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find ourselves together with the European Union in their tariff regime.
“Can the minister confirm there is no binding legal basis for this transfer of sovereignty whatsoever?”
Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said the Diego Garcia military base will be protected “long into the future.”
He said, “We will not scrimp on the security of that base, the solidity of the agreements around it and ensuring that it is in operation well into the next century, and that we are able to operate unimpeded as we do today.”
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also launched a scathing attack on Starmer for giving away £18 billion of taxpayer’s money to surrender the Chagos Islands.
Badenoch said during PMQs “When Labour negotiates, we all lose,” and the Tory leader branded the deal as an “immoral surrender” so that “north London lawyers can boast at dinner parties.”
Starmer said, “This is a military base that is vital to our national security… a number of years ago, the legal certainty of that base was thrown into doubt – and let me be clear: without legal certainty. the base cannot operate in practical terms as it should.
“That is bad for our national security and it is a gift to our adversaries.”
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