Labor sources have told the Guardian that data from Senior Downing Street is concerned about the government’s deal in relation to the sovereignty of Chagus Islands.
Ministers are setting fire to the island to control the islands, including Diego Garcia, with the Joint US UK Air Base, Mauritius. Under the terms of the agreement, the 20 -year -old lease will remain under the UK.
The Kerr star told MPs on Wednesday that the deal was necessary to continue work for the Diego Garcia base. The Prime Minister told the MPs, “Without legal conviction, the foundation cannot work practically as it should.” “This is bad for our national security and this is a gift for our opponents.”
But two senior sources said that some people in the Doning Street have reservations about the deal, which is costing a lot of political capital and is at risk of jeopardizing relations with Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, criticized the deal earlier this month with British Secretary of State David Lemmy in his first call before being appointed.
Jonathan Powell, who discussed an agreement before the UK National Security Advisor, is traveling to Washington DC to meet his US counterpart Mike Walts this week, among fears that Trump’s administration agreement Can try to eliminate.
Opposition MPs have criticized the government. The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, accused the ministers of making talks “boot” and asked why they were paying significant payments in front of Mauritius in front of Mauritius when the winter fuel payment Has been eliminated. “
Conservative leader, Kimi Badnovich called the project a “immoral surrender”, while Nigel Fariz, a reformist UK leader, told MPs that “when the Americans wake up of the fact that it did it completely unnecessarily. If we have gone, I will not be surprised if we find ourselves together with the European Union in their tariff government.
The project is being rapidly criticized within the Labor Party. Bloomberg reports that two cabinet ministers are concerned about the cost of the deal at a time when public spending was at risk.
The former Labor Advisor said that the row has the potential to become a synagogue problem for Gordon Brown to sell Britain’s gold reserves.
Another said that the Chagus contract was “a destructive mistake … now the best way to solve it and save the face is: ‘We tried to be constructive, tried to support the rules -based order, but Mauritius has been completely irrational.
An official source said that the role of eliminating street advisers is to firmly examine the arguments of all policies.
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In the 1960s, Mauritius took control of the Chagus Island after gaining independence, and expelled more than a thousand people to make a way for the Diego Garcia base. Mauritius has retained the islands, and the International Court of Justice ruled in a consultative opinion in 2021 that the British administration is illegal.
Curley’s Labor MP Peter Lamb, West Sussex, which has about 4,000 Chagus Islands, criticized the deal, saying it did not guarantee the island’s right to return home. “There is no guarantee that anyone who really damaged the UK’s actions will benefit from this deal in any way,” he said.
Foreign Office officials were to meet Chagos Islands next week, Stephen Dutti, a minister for British overseas areas, said.
He told Commons that the deal had ensured that the Diego Garcia base could continue, including the guarantee of “unlimited and complete access to the UK on top of it.” Dutti said that if the UK loses this immunity as a result of a sovereignty conflict, other countries can access radio waves above the base.
Mauritius’s Prime Minister, Naveen Ramgulum, on Tuesday, told his MPs, mobilizing diplomatic spectacles that he had re -written the agreement to ensure payments from the UK according to inflation. He said that by not doing so, the money handed over to Mauritius would have left half.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, the star spokesman said it was wrong that the payment had doubled and that the cost of the deal or the lease terms was “no change”.
In response, Ramgulum’s government issued a statement insisting that he never said that the cost of the deal had doubled.
