A damning new report from Policy Exchange shreds the Government’s feeble excuse for surrendering Chagos to Mauritius. Labour ministers insist the deal is necessary to protect the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia—but the report makes it clear that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has no authority to interfere. Any attempt by Mauritius to disrupt operations would be an outright act of hostility. With growing concerns over Chinese influence within the ITU, the idea that handing over British territory to a China-aligned state somehow strengthens national security is for the birds…
Backing the report, Tom Tugendhat tears into the Government’s case as “baseless” and demands they “walk away from the deal.” Meanwhile, Trump’s camp is far from impressed about the surrender deal. Yet Starmer and his gang of lefty lawyers are pushing ahead regardless—at massive cost to the taxpayer, the special relationship, and national security…
Read the report below:
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”