While the majority of Mr Blair's inner circle fell away over the ensuing 12 years, Jonathan Powell stayed firmly by the Prime ...

The tiny Indian Ocean nation is tied with Monaco at the head of Nomad Capitalist's  Freedom Index 2025 after announcing plans ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, peers said.

The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and the United Kingdom. However, the Chagossian people’s identity and ...

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people. The deal, signed last month, handed ...

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...

Analysis - The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22. While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it ...