A US senator has launched a scathing attack on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the government’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, with the senator suggesting that Starmer must be “on drugs” to back the controversial deal.
John Kennedy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, expressed his fierce opposition to the agreement, telling Starmer, “Put the bong down,” after the UK government confirmed plans to transfer sovereignty of the islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean. The islands include Diego Garcia, which hosts a key UK-US naval base. While sovereignty is being transferred to Mauritius, the base will remain under British and American control for the next 99 years, based on a lease agreement, reported by Fox News.
