Sir Keir Starmer has been warned Mauritius is looking to extract more concessions from his “disgraceful” Chagos Islands “surrender”.
Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam is under pressure domestically to secure more money from the UK and evict the US military from its Diego Garcia naval base.
A gaggle of politicians, trade unionists and writers urged Ramgoolam to ensure an end to “war and genocide” on the archipelago.
The current terms of the deal ensure that Britain’s transfers sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and pays £90million a year for 99 years.
Responding to the push for more concessions, Tory peer Lord Daniel Hannan said: “Starmer does not mean a word he says about growth or about national security.
“If he did, the first thing he would do is call a halt to this disgraceful surrender.”
James Glancy, a former Royal Marine who stood as a Brexit Party MEP in 2019, added: “Mauritius is already planning on reneging on Labour’s sell out deal of the Chagos. Treacherous idiots.”
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Britain braces for influx of migrants as Trump’s plan to take over Gaza could flood UKeditsharetrending_up
Britain is bracing for an influx of migrants as US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza could flood the UK.
Trump’s “Make Gaza Great Again” scheme has sparked controversy as it would see two million Gazans forcibly removed from the area.
The US President called the Strip a “demolition site”, vowing he would turn it into “something the entire Middle East can be very proud of”.
Isam, a Palestinian opposition group supporter whose named has been changed, told The Sun: “Trump has suggested we go to Egypt or Jordan but we’d be swapping one hell for another.”
Trump invited to stay with King at Balmoral in Starmer’s push to win over White House
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Donald Trump has been invited to stay with King Charles at Balmoral as Sir Keir Starmer hopes to win over the royal-mad President.
A senior source told The Sun: “Balmoral would be the obvious choice.”
Trump, who frequently brings up his late mother’s Scottish roots, was handed a state visit in 2019.
A Whitehall insider said: “He’s already been to Windsor and Buckingham Palace, so Balmoral is being talked about.
“Everyone knows he loves Scotland and it’s near his golf course.”
Trump would become the first US President to embark on two state visits to the UK if a second invitation was received by the Oval Office.
However, Buckingham Palace and Downing Street both declined to comment.
Miliband accused of ‘playing into Vladimir Putin’s heands’ after fracking site decision
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been accused of “playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands” after approving plans to concrete over Britain’s remaining fracking sites.
Lord Mackinlay, chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group and organiser of the letter, told The Daily Telegraph: “The recent discovery in Lincolnshire should remind people of the madness of Red Ed’s sacred Net Zero.
“He is choosing to leave vast reserves of natural gas untouched at a time when our energy prices are the highest in the world.
“Salting the earth by concreting these wells shuts off a vital resource in very uncertain times, playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands exactly at a time when we need to be strengthening our energy security.”
In a letter, signed by former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, top Tories added: “If this concreting order goes ahead and Britain’s only shale gas wells are destroyed, the British public will be left in no doubt that this is an ideological Government that prioritises an extreme net zero agenda and ideological purity rather than this country’s national security and people’s bills.”
A Department for Energy, Security & Net Zero spokesman said: “We intend to ban fracking for good and make Britain a clean energy superpower to protect current and future generations.”
‘Hamas collusion!’ Badenoch demands answers from BBC boss over Gaza documentary scandal
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has demanded answers from BBC boss Tim Davie over last week’s BBC2 film narrated by the son of a Hamas official.
In her letter, the Leader of the Opposition said that the apparent bias in the BBC’s reporting of the conflict was not an “isolated incident” and any review must root out the “systemic and institutional bias against Israel”.
She added: “Surely it should have been immediately apparent that the programme was fundamentally flawed?
“Such an investigation must consider allegations of potential collusion with Hamas, and the possibility of payment to Hamas officials.”