The Chagos deal is, if not dead, in the deep freezer. It will not be passed in this parliamentary session and will now be absent from the King’s Speech in May. What Sir Keir Starmer once defended as an “absolutely vital” agreement for the safety and security of the British people — the sole means of guaranteeing the Diego Garcia military base and pre-empting future legal challenges this government considered inevitable — is now in tatters. The deal, which would have granted the UK and US access to the vital base in return for annual payments of £101 million to…
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