Yvette Cooper will meet her US counterpart Marco Rubio for talks in Washington after the UK’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius was thrown into fresh doubt by Donald Trump.
Earlier this week, the US president urged Sir Keir Starmer not to “give away Diego Garcia” – an island on the archipelago which is home to a joint UK-US military base – despite Washington signalling its official backing for the deal on Tuesday.
