The government has agreed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, prompting concern they would give up Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands' UK sovereignty.
British sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is not up for negotiation, the prime minister's spokesman has said. Questions over the government's commitment to maintaining the British overseas territories as part of the UK have been raised after the government announced on Thursday it was handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius.
Sir Keir's spokesman said the former Conservative government had carried out 11 rounds of negotiations over the Chagos Islands since 2022 and the government had picked them up and reached an agreement. The archipelago between Mauritius and India had been at the centre of a 50-year dispute after Mauritius gained independence from the UK in 1968 but the Chagos Islands did not.
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