The Latest Breaking News from Chagos Islands

Yvette Cooper will hold talks with Marco Rubio in Washington on Friday and the British Indian Ocean territory is likely to be high on the agenda

Exclusive: A judge has ruled from 25,000ft in the air that a temporary injunction should be placed to block the UK government from removing Chagossians who landed on their islands this week

The plans would see the UK lease the base on Diego Garcia from Mauritius at a cost of £35 billion over the next century.

US president says deal, which he previously described as act of ‘great stupidity’, was ‘best’ PM could make

The US president said he had ‘very productive discussions’ with the Prime Minister about Diego Garcia, where a UK-US military base is located.

US president backs down over Labour prime minister’s plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal the government says is necessary to secure the future of the crucial UK-US Diego Garcia military base

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have agreed to ensure the continued operation of the crucial UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands, Downing Street has confirmed. The leaders committed to "continue working closely to guarantee the future operation" of the facility, marking their first known discussion on the matter…

Communities Secretary Steve Reed argued that the US president unleashed ferocious criticism against the UK over the agreement as a negotiation tactic in his bid for America to acquire Greenland

It came after the Government postponed a parliamentary debate on its Chagos Islands deal.