Keir Starmer will be accused of committing “a crime against humanity” in a legal challenge against his controversial deal to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
The UK prime minister, who made a career out of being a human rights lawyer, is set to have the tables turned on him in court by indigenous Chagossians in an increasingly fraught legal and diplomatic nightmare over his plan to hand over the sovereignty of the Indian Ocean islands.
