Brit national security adviser heads for talks with new Mauritius PM to complete Chagos Islands deal that Trump slammed

NATIONAL information advisor Jonathan Powell has flown retired for talks with the caller Mauritius PM to implicit the woody for the Chagos Islands — contempt US opposition.

The UK agreed to wage Mauritius to tally the tiny Indian Ocean but their government was booted retired of bureau days later.

The incoming Trump medication has slammed the woody that puts a 99 twelvemonth lease connected a captious US/UK naval basal connected the land of Diago Garcia amid fears of Chinese influence.

However Jonathan Powell, who negotiated the archetypal terms, flew retired yesterday to effort support it live contempt heavy American opposition.

Last nighttime Reform brag Nigel Farage blasted: “They privation to surrender the Chagos Islands earlier Trump’s inauguration.

"If we dainty the USA similar this, tin they inactive respect america arsenic an ally?”

Pressure has been mounting connected PM Sir Keir Starmer to teardrop up his program to manus implicit the British Overseas Territory to Mauritius.

Nile Gardiner, manager of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom astatine The Heritage Foundation, urged US President-elect Donald Trump to intervene.

He told The Sun connected Sunday: “The Chagos islands deal is a implicit surrender to China by the Starmer Government.

“It is my steadfast anticipation that the caller US medication volition powerfully reason this deal.

"Many US conservatives person been horrified by what Britain has done.

“And I bash deliberation that this contented volition beryllium an important overseas argumentation precedence for the caller authorities successful the US.

“My beardown proposal to the US President and his advisers is to descend this woody successful the aforesaid mode my erstwhile brag Margaret Thatcher sank the Belgrano.”

The Argentine ship, the General Belgrano, was sunk by the Royal Navy successful the Falklands War.