'With Donald Trump on the warpath, might his revenge torpedo Keir Starmer's Chagos 'surrender' deal?' Nana Akua asks

Why are we really doing this? What is wrong with Sir Keir Starmer and his Government? Why are they intent on giving away the Chagos Islands to the Mauritius?

It actually winds me up when I hear people using the phrase giving them back to the Mauritius, because that would mean that Mauritius have a legitimate claim to them. They don't.

And Sir Keir Starmer is such a hypocrite.

Previously, he said: "The future of Greenland is for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, and for Greenland in the future of Denmark only, and Denmark is a very close ally of the UK, both in Europe and in Nato.

"And it's very important that we're clear about the principles applicable to it. Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark must determine the future of Greenland and nobody else."

But when Misley Mandarin and his father landed on Île du Coin, the island in Chagos that his father was actually born on, Sir Keir Starmer sent out a patrol to hand them an eviction notice.

What happened to our so-called human rights lawyer? What happened to the self-determination of the Chagossians? What happened to their human rights?

It was only later on in the week that somebody, somewhere, realised that what a bad look it would be. And they were given a temporary reprieve.

The Conservatives started all of this on their watch, although at least they parked it in the long grass. They are now accusing the Defence Secretary, John Healey, of misleading Parliament.

In May, John Healey said that the Government faced a legal challenge within weeks if it did not agree to the handover. He said there are a range of international legal challenges and rulings against us.

The most proximate and the most potentially serious is the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

However, it turns out that article 298 of the UN convention on the Law of the Sea has an exemption for military bases.

This is the second time that Labour have tried to put forward legal reasoning to explain why they are giving away, at great cost to the taxpayer, a group of islands of such strategic importance.

And when you hear that Sir Keir Starmer's close friend KC Philippe Sands, has reportedly earned a share of £8million for his part in the deal, and that the former Mauritian prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, the architect of the deal he negotiated with Keir Starmer, was arrested on corruption charges early last year...

You've got to ask yourself - what the hell is going on? Now, I'm not saying that Keir Starmer has done anything wrong, but the optics aren't good that Lagosians are undeterred as 50 more are due to land soon.

Mr. Mandarin told GB News he would rather be killed than leave.

While fellow Chagossian Pamela Emilien says that Sir Keir Starmer should be ashamed.

And now Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of betraying the special relationship by blocking Donald Trump from using RAF bases to strike Iran.

With Trump on the warpath, might this revenge be torpedoing the Prime Minister's Chagos deal?

So the pressure mounts for Sir Keir Starmer to stop the handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. What's one more U-turn?

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