The Prime Minister will require an Act of Parliament to sign over the strategically important Chagos Islands over to ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

David Lammy, then Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, made a minor splash in Westminster when he floated the concept of ...

We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

The special envoy who negotiated the return of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius said Britain is losing more ground to coastal ...

Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history.

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...