A senior advisor to President Donald Trump has revealed that the US is “reviewing” the UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over Diego Garcia.
Diego Garcia, which is an Anglo-American military base, is at the centre of negotiations between London and Port Louis.
Washington is increasingly concerned about the influence of China and Iran in the Indian Ocean, with the Chagos Islands now being seen as a potential outpost for adversaries.
Speaking on GB News, Dr Sebastian Gorka said: “These are the same people who said the President was crazy to say that he’s going to tariff Mexico and Canada and the price of avocados is going to skyrocket.
Donald Trump ‘reviewing’ Starmer’s Chagos ‘sell out’ with Mauritius as US focus on ‘significant’ military base
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“What were the results? 10,000 troops from Mexico to secure the border within 50 minutes of telling Colombia we’re going to tariff you, the President offered his plane to take back illegals to Colombia. So this is called The Art of the Deal.
“I tell everyone whether you like President Trump or whether you don’t like President Trump, if you haven’t read the Art of the Deal, you do not understand how transformational an individual this is.
“We’ve been in this White House for less than three weeks. It feels like we’ve been here for six months.
“The kinds of things we’ve done, from smiting Isis in Somalia to the incredible things that have happened with the economy, with Elon Musk, with illegals.
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The deal will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to MauritiusGetty“I’m not going to give away what the arch real estate developer of the previous century is going to do in Gaza, but he has one priority: Stop the killing, and that’s what he’s doing.
“I’m not going to qualify what the British Government is doing [on the Chagos Islands] but I have consulted with the national security team here.
“We are reviewing what the Brits are doing, what No10, Downing Street, is proposing and I’ve been authorised to say this.
“Diego Garcia is not insignificant to Washington and to this building, to the White House.
Sir Keir StarmerReuters“America first does not mean America alone. And if you look at the 20th century and how US interest with our allies, our special friends in the UK have been realised globally, what I’m going to say is the future of that land mass of the Diego Garcia is not irrelevant to President Trump.”
Farage asked Starmer: “What do I say to the 25,000 constituents in Clacton—including 99-year-old Jim O’Dwyer, who flew a full set of missions on Lancaster bombers as tail-end Charlie—who are losing their winter fuel allowance and feeling the pinch, while at the same time we are prepared to give away a military base and pay £18billion for the privilege of doing so?”
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also quizzed the Prime Minister on the Chagos Islands.
She said: “This is money that belongs to our children and their children. This is an immoral surrender, so that north London lawyers can boast at their dinner parties.”