Trump launches scathing assault on Keir Starmer over Chagos betrayal | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Sir Keir Starmer got here underneath Donald Trump’s hearth in a contemporary assault over the the UK’s Chagos Islands deal. This got here a day after his administration stated he supported it.

In a put up on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday evening, the US president stated the deal at hand sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius was “a big mistake” because of the presence of a joint UK-US navy base.

The plans would see the UK lease again the bottom on Diego Garcia, however Mr Trump described this association as “tenuous” and “no good”. Claiming the bottom may very well be important for a US strike towards Iran, and warning that Tehran may assault the UK, Mr Trump urged Sir Keir: “DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!”

He added: “Our relationship with the United Kingdom is a strong and powerful one, and it has been for many years, but Prime Minister Starmer is losing control of this important Island by claims of entities never known of before.”

His feedback got here a day after the US State Department stated it supported the deal that will return the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. But it additionally comes after former Conservative chief Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a vocal critic of the Chagos deal, returned from a visit to Washington the place he mentioned the plans with members of the Trump administration.

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