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:
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”