Exiled Chagos Islanders bask in return ‘as pilgrims to abandoned place’
GuardianMAR 31 2022
While implemented by the new, left-wing government of Sir Keir Starmer, this has been on the agenda for successive administrations and comes from a shared desire to bring the UK fully under international law while maintaining its strategic interests in the region.
As is typical of woke progressives, the Labour government has handed over control of the strategically important islands to an ally of China with little regard for what this really means for Britain's long-term interests.