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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Was this the week Starmer’s Chagos deal finally died?

Dame Priti Patel flew to Washington DC this week to convince Donald Trump’s administration to kill off Sir Keir Starmer’s beleaguered Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius.

The Tory shadow foreign secretary’s trip came after the government pulled plans to bring forward a vote in the Lords on Tuesday this week to ratify it in a what has become a crisis for the prime minister.

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