Sir Keir Starmer has delayed his Chagos Islands handover deal in the face of backlash from the US after Donald Trump labelled it an act of “great stupidity”.
The UK government’s plan to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which was set to be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, has now been withdrawn, amid warnings it could breach a treaty with the US that asserts the UK’s sovereignty over the archipelago.
