The Starmer government is risking a huge public backlash as the settlement party that landed on the Chagos archipelago yesterday has been served with a ‘British Indian Ocean Territory Removal Order’. Breaking now…
Documents issued to the party today, including the First Minister of the Chagos Government in Exile Misley Mandarin, read:
“This order shall be carried into effect by the master of the vessel on which you were carried into the Territory… if you breach this Order and return to the Territory you will commit a criminal offence and be liable on conviction for imprisonment for 3 years or a fine of £3000”.
This is blowing up into a nightmare for Labour: using heavy-handed tactics and threats of imprisonment is not a good look. Developing…
Starmer was read out a list of his 13 U-turns on BBC Radio 2, to which he responded:
“Well, I am a common sense merchant.”