UK should renegotiate Chagos Islands deal to allow islanders to return, UN argues

Chagossian protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice - (PA)

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces calls to suspend his deal handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN experts criticised the treatment of the Chagossian people.

The deal, agreed last month after long-running negotiations, returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.