Keir Starmer’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has been dealt another major blow after a judge ruled that islanders expelled in the 1960s have the right to live there.
The landmark court ruling is a further setback to the beleaguered prime minister, whose efforts to resolve the future of the Chagos Islands, which houses the crucial US-UK airbase on Diego Garcia, have been turned against the government, undoing almost six decades of previous legal judgements on the islands.
