The Conservatives delay the Lord's debate of the Bill aimed at enshrining the government's Chagos Islands handover deal in law.

Conservative peers have forced Sir Keir Starmer to pause legislation to ratify the UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Islands, following Donald Trump’s claim this week that the deal is an “act of great stupidity” and “weakness” by Britain.

SIR Keir Starmer has been hit by fresh chaos as he has been forced to delay his Chagos Islands deal following Donald Trump’s backlash. The Bill allowing the Indian Ocean territory to be handed to

The United States will “have to have a say” on the UK’s decision to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel has said as she echoed calls from Conservative colleagues to scrap the deal.

The Prime Minister faced calls to heed the concerns of Donald Trumpand scrap the plan of surrendering the Chagos Islands entirely - not just pause it.

The US president's remarks about Nato troops in Afghanistan and his part in the Chagos Islands deal top the papers.

Andrew Rosindell, who defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK at the weekend, wrote to Joe Biden in December 2020 saying failure to 'decolonise' the Chagos Islands was causing international anger

The islands, which Britain has agreed to hand over to Mauritius, are home to a strategically important U.S.-British military base.