The Chagos betrayals never end. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting is the latest recruit to those pushing Starmer's rotten Chagos deal. Here's a timeline of the key stages in the Chagos treachery. In 1982, after it became known that the Chagos seabed may contain vast mineral wealth, Mauritius set up a select committee to examine the matter. However, sea-mining technology was in its infancy, and it was too expensive to be commercially viable. In 2003, as underwater mining technologies evolved and the value of minerals and rare earth elements soared, mining the Chagos seabed became an exciting possibility again; the eminent international barrister, Sir Ian Brownlie, was appointed advisor to Mauritius for the Chagos Archipelago. A former member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Brownlie was a good friend of Sir Satcam Boolell, a senior Labour politician in Mauritius, and High Commissioner in London for his country. In 2009, Brownlie led the first Mauritius delegation to the Foreign Office in London seeking a Chagos deal. Among the delegation was Sir Satcam Boolell's son Satyajit, who became Mauritius Director of Public Prosecutions the same year. In 2010, after Brownlie was died in a motor accident in Egypt, Sir Keir Starmer’s “great mate”, Philippe Sands, a barrister who has publicly boasted of humiliating the UK in international courts, took over as counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. In 2013, Satyajit Boolell invited Keir Starmer, whom he had become friendly with during Starmer's time as the UK's DPP, to a legal conference at the 5-star Balaclava resort in Mauritius. During the trip, Starmer discussed the future of the Chagos Archipelago with then Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. After Starmer’s 2013 visit, Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over Chagos. In 2015, Ramgoolam was arrested on money-laundering charges after large sums of cash in foreign currencies, suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches, and blank British visas were found in his home. Also in 2015, Starmer was elected to the British Parliament. In 2019, Philippe Sands obtained an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. Sands used the ICJ ruling as leverage in the following years in his efforts to persuade the Conservative government to give Chagos to Mauritius. In 2020, Starmer became leader of the Labour Party. 🧧In November 2023, David Cameron replaced James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary, and binned a Chagos deal saying, it’s not in the national interest, as reported in Hansard. In July 2024, Starmer became UK Prime Minister and just ten weeks after entering Downing Street, he agreed a deal with Mauritius, despite there having been no mention of Chagos during the election campaign, and the Labour manifesto pledging to protect the BOT. in November of 2024, Ramgoolam was elected Mauritius prime minister again after a snap general election, and took over from the incumbent PM, Pravind Jugnauth, to lead the Chagos negotiations with the UK. In December 2024, after 14 years in the role, Philippe Sands steps down as Mauritius counsel for Chagos. In January 2025, Attorney General Lord Hermer recuses himself from signing off on the Chagos deal, and declines to say why. In February 2025, Jugnauth was arrested on money-laundering charges after large sums of cash in foreign currencies and suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches were found in his home. In May 2025, twelve years after discussing the future of Chagos in Mauritius, Starmer and Ramgoolam sat down in London to sign the treaty that transfers the archipelago's sovereignty to Mauritius. The Fall Out. The Chagos deal does🟥NOT secure the joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia. The deal operationally hobbles the base, and increases the dangers to the British and American military personnel, and the civilians who work there, and in the wider Central Indian Ocean region. Diego Garcia's remoteness made it easy to defend in the past. This deal leaves the base horribly vulnerable to the growing threats posed by the new longer-range missiles, and more sophisticated and lethal drones. When Keir Starmer, Lord Hermer and Vijay Rangarajan, the Director General at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, made the deal it was fully understood that the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago were by far the best locations to deploy early warning, and air-defense systems, to protect the main base from missile and drone attacks. Yet they still decided to lease only Diego Garcia. Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham know the deal increases the dangers to the lives of British service personnel, and our NATO allies personnel, in the strategically important Central Indian Ocean region. To double down and push the deal with that knowledge is a disgraceful act of betrayal. While the deal leaves Diego Garcia vulnerable to attack, it also renders the base itself ineffective and operationally hobbled. Mauritius is a signatory of the Pelindaba African Weapon-Free Zone Treaty which bans all nuclear weapons from treaty members' territory. Pelindaba gives each of the more the 40 countries who have signed it the right to inspect the facilities on Diego Garcia if they suspect nuclear arms are being stored there. The UK's nuclear-armed Trident submarines will no longer be able to enter Chagos waters, or visit Diego Garcia which is the only island in the region which has suitable anchorage and facilities for maintenance and restocking provisions, etc. The US's nuclear-armed submarines, ships, and planes will also be banned from Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago's waters. Mauritius gets complete sovereignty over everything, including control of the airspace above the Chagos Archipelago, which at 250,000 square miles is the same size as France. The implications of controlling such a vast area of airspace in a strategically vital region are huge. Mauritius has shown it will ban planes entering its current airspace when China asks. The Chagos Deal does not ‘secure the base’. It methodically destroys every element required for operations. The text and annexes state it will: ❌Constrain future Ops and use of the base ❌Prevent the placing of sensors and other maritime installations ❌Require us to sight our foes on defence planning ❌Mean we’re unable to use our preferred contractors ❌See us lose of control over electromagnetic spectrum.

Who signed off on this? Who made the decision to green light this totally unnecessary vandalism? @Telegraph @DailyMail @thetimes @Daily_Express

Attention @Telegraph Attention @DailyMail Attention @thetimes Attention @Daily_Express Time to go to work and expose the deliberate destruction of this once green and pleasant land.

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The government is ripping up UK Constitutional Sovereignty. And¥ Burnham preparing to sign up to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is just the latest instance. Of course, the BIG surrender of Constitutional Sovereignty was Keir Starmer' and Lord Hermer's decision to recognize the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the world's Apex court and accept its "compulsory jurisdiction". "Compulsory jurisdiction" is a mechanism by which a state recognises the ICJ's authority to adjudicate legal disputes. Accepting the ICJ's authority opens the UK to a torrent of cases seeking reparations. For example, the left-wing Lalit Party and a powerful coalition of 28 trade unions and associations in Mauritius are pressing their government to sue the UK for reparations which are owed for illegal occupation for 57 years of part of Mauritian Territory, and for the damage this has resulted in for the State of Mauritius and all its people.

Starmer and Hermer declared the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the "World's Apex Court", and that the UK accepts its jurisdiction.

UK Constitution dumped for Chagos Keir Starmer entered Downing Street determined to give Chagos to Mauritius, and just 10 weeks after becoming Prime Minister, he announced that a deal had been agreed. The legal justification for the transfer of sovereignty was the 2019 International Court of Justice's non-binding advisory opinion that Chagos should be given to Mauritius. The ICJ has no legal authority over the UK, but Starmer and his Attorney General, Lord Hermer, convinced the Cabinet to back the deal, even though the UK's executive branch of government lacks the legal power to concede constitutional authority to the International Court of Justice, or any foreign court. Despite Parliament's sovereignty on international legal matters, and such an important issue as giving away British Overseas Territory involving serious implications for a vital joint UK/US military base and the country's security, Sir Keir Starmer and Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius, signed the Chagos Archipelago sovereignty treaty on 22 May 2025. The primary implementing legislation for the Chagos Archipelago treaty, the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill, wasn't introduced in the House of Commons until 15 July 2025. In January this year, at the United Nations General Assembly at 80 conference in London, Hermer stated during his keynote speech that the UK has accepted the International Court of Justice's "compulsory jurisdiction", and that "the ICJ is now the World's Apex Court". Under the British constitution, the executive branch (the Prime Minister and Cabinet) lacks the legal power to alter domestic constitutional arrangements, cede state sovereignty, or override domestic law. Accepting the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction is akin to putting a foreign court over UK Constitutional Sovereignty. Compulsory jurisdiction is a mechanism by which a State recognizes the authority of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to adjudicate legal disputes automatically, without needing a separate agreement for each case. The government must immediately withdraw from accepting the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction, as it leaves the UK wide open to being sued by Mauritius, or any other state or third party.

UK Constitutional Sovereignty TRASHED for Chagos giveaway. Under the uncodified British constitution, the executive branch (the Prime Minister and Cabinet) lacks the legal power to alter domestic constitutional arrangements, cede state sovereignty, or override domestic law. However, that is precisely what Keir Starmer and his Cabinet did when they conceded constitutional authority to the International Court of Justice regarding Chagos. Starmer broke with tradition by appointing his old friend and colleague Richard Hermer as Attorney General. As Hermer was not an elected MP, Starmer gave him a peerage so he could sit in the House of Lords, join his government, and advise it on legal matters. Straight after entering Downing Street, Starmer started working on giving Chagos to Mauritius, and just ten weeks after becoming Prime Minister, he announced that a deal had been agreed. The legal justification for the transfer of sovereignty was the 2019 International Court of Justice's non-binding advisory opinion, obtained by Starmer's "great mate" and counsel for Mauritius, Philippe Sands, that Chagos should be given to Mauritius. The ICJ has no legal authority over the UK, but Starmer and Hermer unilaterally accepted the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction as the World's Apex Court. Hermer stressed the importance of international law from his maiden speech in the House of Lords and throughout his tenure as Attorney General. In January this year, at the United Nations General Assembly at 80 conference in London, Hermer stated during his keynote speech that the UK has accepted the International Court of Justice's "compulsory jurisdiction", and that "the ICJ is now the World's Apex Court". The ICJ bench which issued the non-binding advisory opinion on Chagos was composed of the following judges and nationalities: • Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (President) – Somalia • Xue Hanqin (Vice-President) – China • Peter Tomka – Slovakia • Ronny Abraham – France • Mohamed Bennouna – Morocco • Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade – Brazil • Joan E. Donoghue (dissented from the majority) – United States of America • Giorgio Gaja – Italy • Julia Sebutinde – Uganda • Dalveer Bhandari – India • Patrick Lipton Robinson – Jamaica • James Richard Crawford – Australia • Kirill Gevorgian – Russian Federation • Nawaf Salam – Lebanon • Yuji Iwasawa – Japan The UK Prime Minister cannot concede constitutional legal authority to a world court. Long-time friends, Starmer, Hermer and Sands are highly experienced leading barristers.

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