All we’ve seen is a white flag of surrender from Starmer and Lammy ... The Diego Garcia military base on the Chagos islands is used by both the US and UK air forces Credit: Alamy Sir Keir ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White House they may have to wait a little longer.

Friends of the British Overseas Territories, FOTBOT, plan to visit the Falkland Islands this month with Parliamentary Adviser ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.