Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has revealed the cost of his government’s botched legal fight over Chagos. Answering a Private Notice Question in the country’s National Assembly yesterday, he confirmed over £408,000 has been paid to London firm Withers LLP, retained since November 2024. It is the epitome of Starmerism that his flagship foreign policy effort has only enriched a bunch of London lawyers…
The international legal team has also clocked up Rs 631,285, or around £10,075, in flights. Mauritius’s local legal team, fronted by the Attorney General, has added a further Rs 1,334,461 (~£21,300) in plane tickets, plus daily allowances at approved rates. Chicken feed compared to the billions the British taxpayer is expected to cough up if this lot ever get what they want…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”