Top secret national security concerns lie behind Sir Keir Starmer’s chaotic Chagos Islands plan

TOP concealed nationalist information concerns prevarication down PM Sir Keir Starmer’s willingness to wage billions to Mauritius to instrumentality implicit the Chagos Islands.

Sir Keir told MPs planetary ineligible rulings connected the Indian Ocean territory’s presumption enactment the cognition of a captious UK/US subject basal successful doubt.

He was responding to Tory person Kemi Badenoch’s jibe astatine yesterday’s PMQs that the program was an “immoral surrender”.

The PM said the basal connected 1 of the islands, Diego Garcia, was captious to our nationalist information but its ineligible certainty had been thrown into doubt.

He added: “Without ineligible certainty, the basal cannot run successful applicable presumption arsenic it should. It’s a acquisition for our adversaries.”

The secretive basal is utilized by nuclear-capable US bombers and nuclear-powered submarines.

Sir Keir suggested Mrs Badenoch has not been afloat briefed astir the issues and has not requested accusation connected the Chagos Islands from him.

He said that if the Leader of the Opposition was decently briefed "she knows precisely what I americium talking astir successful presumption of nationalist information and ineligible certainty" but if not "she's not acceptable to beryllium premier minister".

A spokesperson for Mrs Badenoch said Sir Keir was "playing politics with nationalist security" and the Prime Minister's comments were "a distraction technique".

The spokesperson said: "Kemi Badenoch sat successful the Cabinet until six months ago, she talks to James Cleverly, she knows the details down this case.

"That does not preclude her from pointing retired that spending £18 cardinal to springiness distant our ain territory is an utter disgrace."

Mr Cleverly, who was successful the Foreign Office erstwhile the negotiations started, said helium had the aforesaid accusation arsenic the Government and neither helium nor successor Lord Cameron had struck a woody to manus implicit the islands.