Dame Priti moved a Commons motion which asked the Government to release a chronology of the negotiations between the UK Government and Mauritius since July 4 last year, and to confirm the accuracy of recent updates made by the Mauritius prime minister on the terms of the deal.
“The Labour Government may not realise this but Mauritius knows it very, very well, the British taxpayer knows this extremely well, and of course, our enemies know this, and they’re sitting back and watching, rubbing their hands with glee because on all the key negotiation points, Labour have backed down and Britain is losing control.”.
Nigel Farage told the Commons he would rather hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to the US, as opposed to “corrupt Mauritius”.
Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds told MPs a legally-binding international judgment against UK sovereignty in the Chagos Islands is “inevitable” without a deal.
Asked why she was criticising a deal when the Tories started the negotiations, Dame Priti said: “It’s not the Conservative Party that’s putting forward a surrender deal.
