Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius suffered a serious parliamentary blow last night after the House of Lords voted to derail the Government’s timetable and force a renegotiation of key terms of the deal. In a closely fought division during the Report stage of the Diego Garcia Military Base … Continue reading Lords inflict damaging defeat on Starmer over Chagos deal as peers force rethink of Mauritius treaty