Jonathan Powell is being dispatched to Washington to attempt an acceleration of the Chagos handover prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20th January. Seeing as the Mauritian and Trump teams are now expressing reservations, the UK is the only party pushing to give away its own sovereignty…
Defensive Whitehall briefiengs say that the new Mauritian PM indicated his willingness to execute the deal in a letter to Starmer on coming to office. So, before he expressed his quite strident doubts then…
Nigel Farage on Newsnight last night set out why Trump’s top team is “horrified” by the deal:
At this point if the deal goes ahead it will only be for Labour to save face. Pointless…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”