Sir Keir Starmer accused of national sabotage with his plans to surrender Chagos Islands

SIR Keir Starmer has been accused of nationalist sabotage with his plans to surrender the Chagos Islands.

Concessions offered to Mauritius see doubling the archetypal £9billion currency handout for the 99-year lease of the Diego Garcia US military base.

The country’s PM Navin Ramgoolam besides said that helium would person a close to veto immoderate determination by the UK to widen it by a further 40 years.

Shadow Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick said past night: “This is traitorous levels of nationalist sabotage from Starmer.”

Tory person Kemi Badenoch added: “Starmer’s foolish woody gets worse each minute.

"He is surrendering British territory and paying for the privilege.”

Mr Ramgoolam has suggested that yearly payments volition beryllium frontloaded and emergence with inflation, perchance doubling the £90million-a-year bill.

He said: “We person to beryllium inflation-proof.

"What’s the constituent of getting money and past having fractional of it by the end.

"This is what would happen, we person made the calculations.”

Downing Street said the UK would “only hold a woody that is successful our nationalist interests and protects our nationalist security”.