The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

Failure often occurs little by little, then all of a sudden. This feels increasingly true of the UK’s attempt to cede ...

Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

A former Foreign Office official has urged Sir Keir Starmer to reject demands from Mauritius for more money in talks over the ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

Surrendering UK sovereignty of the Chagos Islands is an “irresponsible act”, a Labour former minister has said, backing calls ...

Conservatives have attacked "costly" plans to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which has reportedly made huge ...

A historic deal for the United Kingdom to hand over control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has been put into question after the African island country’s new prime minister issued ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being held up over the amount of money involved. Under the terms of the ...