Sir Keir Starmer has defended the controversial Chagos Islands deal after the Conservative leader branded it an "immoral surrender".The Government plans to give the British Indian Ocean Territory back to Mauritius and pay to lease the strategically important US-UK military base on the largest island,

Sir Keir Starmer said legal certainty was required over the future of the Diego Garcia military base. Sir Keir Starmer warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands and the strategically important Diego Garcia military base.