Nigel Farage to meet Donald Trump TODAY as row with Keir Starmer leaves Chagos deal on the brink

Mr Farage told the gathering: "We think this is the central plan for this Government's foreign policy and we are beating them back.

"President Trump has almost understood the deal, but I will be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and we will reinforce the message."

The Reform UK leader went on to brand the agreement with Mauritius as "the worst deal in history" and an "absolute betrayal".

He added: "We have got to keep fighting, we have got to keep the pressure up, we must not let our foot off this pedal, but for first time in this battle... this feels more than winnable."

A heated row erupted between Mr Trump and Sir Keir earlier this week after Britain did not allow the US to launch air strikes from RAF bases, including the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia.

The US President said the Prime Minister had been “very uncooperative” and had “ruined relationships” over the decision.

He fumed: “That island… It’s taken three, four days, for us to work out where we can land there.

"It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised.”

“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” he added.

Speaking about the deal, Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have, that they gave away and took a 100-year lease; having to do with, perhaps, indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about?”

In his most scathing remark yet, the President allegedly called the Labour leader “a loser who has no future” over Britain’s inaction in the Middle East.

Less than 48 hours after initially blocking the move, Sir Keir reversed course and approved the use of UK bases - including RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia - for “limited defensive” US operations.

Despite an initially positive relationship between the pair, tensions escalated after Mr Trump rebuked Sir Keir over the controversial Chagos deal.

Mr Trump criticised the proposed agreement on Truth Social, branding it an “act of great stupidity”.

Under the deal, Britain would transfer sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius while leasing back the strategic Diego Garcia base on a 99-year agreement.

However, the UK cannot legally transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius without American consent under a 1966 treaty between the two countries.

During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Sir Keir defended his decision not to allow UK bases to be used in the initial US-Israel strikes on Iran.

He said he was not prepared to involve Britain in a war without “a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan”.

The Chagos Islands deal was thrown into chaos last month when Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer said Britain was “pausing” the process while holding talks with the US.

The Government later clarified the process had not been paused, but the agreement is still undergoing ratification in the House of Commons.

Mauritius has now threatened legal action over delays to ratifying the deal.

Navin Ramgoolam, the country's Prime Minister, told a local media outlet his government was “exploring legal avenues in the Chagos case”.

The Foreign Office has repeatedly insisted the agreement “is the only way” to ensure the US-UK base on Diego Garcia "remains secure and operational in the long term".

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