The Conservatives delay the Lord's debate of the Bill aimed at enshrining the government's Chagos Islands handover deal in law.

SIR Keir Starmer has been hit by fresh chaos as he has been forced to delay his Chagos Islands deal following Donald Trump’s backlash. The Bill allowing the Indian Ocean territory to be handed to

US President Trump has called the deal a ‘great act of stupidity’, despite his government having previously been content with the terms

Conservative peers have forced Sir Keir Starmer to pause legislation to ratify the UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Islands, following Donald Trump’s claim this week that the deal is an “act of great stupidity” and “weakness” by Britain.

There is a key U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean.

Andrew Rosindell, who defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK at the weekend, wrote to Joe Biden in December 2020 saying failure to 'decolonise' the Chagos Islands was causing international anger

The US president's remarks about Nato troops in Afghanistan and his part in the Chagos Islands deal top the papers.

The islands, which Britain has agreed to hand over to Mauritius, are home to a strategically important U.S.-British military base.