Ms Patel said: “We should go back to base camp, look at the judgment and say there are other ways of doing this without just handing over a sovereign territory, and certainly without committing anything from £9 billion to £18 billion at a time when we constantly hear from the government there is a financial crisis here.”.
Mr Jenrick was condemned for his comments by Brendan Cox, the husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox, who said: “Calling fellow MPs ‘quislings’ and ‘traitors’ isn’t just a pathetic, and painfully inauthentic, attempt to sound populist - it’s also dangerous.
Mr Jenrick’s intervention came after reports the UK could end up paying £18 billion instead of the original £9 billion under the original agreement to lease back Diego Garcia for 99 years.
Kemi Badenoch disowns Robert Jenrick's bizarre traitor insult against Keir Starmer Shadow justice secretary condemned for using the phrase ‘Quisling’ - a reference to a World War Two Nazi collaborator.
Unlike the original deal, which new Mauritian PM Navin Ramgoolam said was “not good enough”, there would also be no automatic extension mechanism after 99 years.
