Brit national security adviser heads for talks with new Mauritius PM to complete Chagos Islands deal that Trump slammed

Despite US resistance, Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, has rushed out to meet with the new prime minister of Mauritius in order to finalize the agreement for the Chagos Islands.

Days after the UK agreed to pay Mauritius to administer the tiny Indian Ocean, their government was overthrown.

A 99-year lease on a crucial US/UK naval base on the island of Diago Garcia has been criticized by the incoming Trump administration due to concerns about Chinese influence.

Nevertheless, despite strong American opposition, Jonathan Powell, who negotiated the original accords, flew out yesterday to attempt to keep it going.

Reform leader Nigel Farageblast said last night that they wish to give up the Chagos Islands prior to Trump’s presidency.

“Can the USA still consider us an ally if we treat them this way?

There has been increasing pressure on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to abandon his proposal to cede the British Overseas Territory to Mauritius.

US President-elect Donald Trump was encouraged to step in by Nile Gardiner, head of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom.

“The Chagos Islands deal is a complete surrender to China by the Starmer Government,” he told The Sun on Sunday.

I sincerely hope that this agreement will be fiercely opposed by the incoming US administration.

“The actions of Britain have appalled a lot of conservative Americans.

And I do believe that the next US government will make this a top foreign policy priority.

The US President and his advisors should kill this deal the way my former employer, Margaret Thatcher, sank the Belgrano, I strongly advise.

During the Falklands War, the Royal Navy sank the Argentine vessel, the General Belgrano.

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