Mauritius’s new Prime Minister demanded review of Chagos Islands deal in bitter blow to Sir Keir Starmer

MAURITIUS’s caller Prime Minister has demanded a reappraisal of the Chagos Islands woody successful a bitter stroke to Sir Keir Starmer.

Navin Ramgoolam, who swept to powerfulness successful a landslide predetermination this month, said his furniture would present measure the statement earlier deciding connected adjacent steps.

He told the Mauritian Parliament the details of the woody were “unknown to the caller government” passim the 2 years of negotiations.

Sir Keir insisted helium is assured the agreement, which hands Mauritius sovereignty implicit the islands portion preserving the UK-US subject basal connected Diego Garcia, volition beryllium ratified soon.

But Ramgoolam’s determination to motorboat a reappraisal has thrown the woody into uncertainty - with officials successful Mauritius already voicing concerns astir the fiscal presumption and sovereignty arrangements.

To complicate things, US President Biden supported the woody erstwhile it was announced past period but the incoming Trump medication has already expressed reservations.

Marco Rubio, Trump’s prime arsenic caput of state, has suggested that the woody would “provide an accidental for communist China to summation invaluable quality connected our naval enactment facility”.

Reform UK person Nigel Farage, who is adjacent to Trump, besides claimed the caller US medication would greet Sir Keir’s woody with “outright hostility”.