Nigel Farage has demanded a referendum on the surrender of the Chagos Islands in a further swipe at Labour's "rotten" handover of the strategic archipelago. The Reform UK leader has echoed calls made by Tory peers to let the Chagossian people decide the future of their homeland - which would likely take until after Donald Trump's inauguration as

Nigel Farage has demanded a referendum on Sir Keir Starmer’s “rotten” Chagos Islands deal. Reform UK's leader wants the Government to ask the Chagossians who should have sovereignty over the islands

The British government says it is confident its plan to secure the future of a U.S.-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be ratified after an ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and the new Mauritian prime minister publicly dismissed the deal.

Mauritius' new prime minister said he has asked for an independent review of a deal with the United Kingdom over the future of the Chagos Islands. Under the agreement, which has still to be signed, the UK would relinquish sovereignty over the archipelago but maintain a 99-year lease over Diego Garcia,

The Reform UK leader put forward the idea of allowing the Chagossian people to decide the future of their homeland as he joined other opposition MPs in raising concerns over the agreement to give up s

Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge used an Urgent Question in Parliament yesterday to question why the government appeared to be in such a 'rush' to get the deal done.

Nigel Farage has demanded a referendum on Sir Keir Starmer’s “rotten” Chagos Islands deal. The Reform UK leader called on ministers to allow the Chagossian people to decide the future of their homeland as he joined other opposition MPs in raising concerns over the agreement to give up British sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.