The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

Phillipe Sands, who compared Britain’s possession of territory to Russian invasion of Crimea, attended ceremony in 2022 ...

National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands ... British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia.

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...

Sir Keir Starmer said Diego Garcia is ‘vital to our national security’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA) National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a ...