Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal will cost the British taxpayer £52bn over 99 years. The Reform UK leader made the claim at a rally in Wiltshire today. He also took ...

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam told his country’s National Assembly that he had rewritten the deal to ensure payments from the UK rose in line with inflation and to give his country an ...

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who demanded the terms be renegotiated after taking office in November, said on Tuesday that the rewritten agreement would give his country a say on ...

And the UK flatly denied suggestions that the cost could spiral to £18 billion after the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said payments would be inflation-linked. At Prime Minister’s ...

However, the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal, and U.S. President Donald Trump's team are also examining the agreement. Ramgoolam said ...

It came as the prime minister of Mauritius, Navin Ramgoolam, issued an urgent clarification correcting claims the price of leasing back the UK/US airbase on the islands had doubled to £18 billion. Mr ...

The reported price of the deal has also sparked further controversy. Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam claimed inflation had driven the cost above the previously reported £9 billion ...

On Tuesday, Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said the deal had been renegotiated, meaning the UK's lease payments would be increased in line with inflation, and a larger portion paid upfront.

Navin Ramgoolam, the Mauritian prime minister, claimed last week that he had secured an inflation-linked deal from the UK, although this was denied by the Foreign Office. Speaking at a rally in ...