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Foreign Secretary David Lammy has suggested that President Donald Trump will have a veto over the Chagos deal.
Parliamentary scrutiny is mounting over the government’s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer travels to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, whose approval is crucial for the deal to proceed.
The UK is negotiating the transfer of the Chagos Islands, while seeking to lease back the strategically vital Diego Garcia military base used by the United States. Under an agreement signed in October, the British-U.S. base on Diego Garcia would remain under UK control for at least 99 years.
Washington’s approval is key to the progress of the deal, according to Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Speaking to ITV’s “Peston” programme on Wednesday, Lammy said: “If President Trump doesn’t like the deal, the deal will not go forward.
“The reason for that is because we have a shared military and intelligence interest with the United States, and of course they’ve got to be happy with the deal, or there is no deal.”
The Chagos deal, announced in October, was reached in close consultation with American…
