‘U-Turn’ Starmer Pauses Plans To Hand Over Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia Airbase Back to Mauritius After Trump Called It ‘An Act of Great Stupidity’
Starmer is lost at the helm of a decadent Britain.
A defining characteristic of failed Keir Starmer’s Premiership is the fact that he is always changing his mind and making ‘U-turns’, a sign that his policies and his decisions are a matter solely of political convenience.
But the fact is that many of his Labour policies are so bad, that his reversing them ends up being his most positive contribution.
Take, for example, his incomprehensible plan to give the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius: harshly criticized by Donald J. Trump, and now apparently shelved.
Trump launches a harsh attack on the United Kingdom
It all stems from the decision to transfer the island of Diego Garcia to Mauritius — home to a key US military base.
Trump called the move a sign of weakness and said it had already been noticed in Moscow and Beijing.… pic.twitter.com/hn1AOnbzq7
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) January 20, 2026
The UK press reported today that the Labour government is setting aside the Chagos Islands handover plan because of opposition from Trump’s administration.
Politico reported:
“A bill underpinning the deal will not be included in the King’s Speech next month, The Times and other outlets reported on Saturday. POLITICO reported in February that Starmer’s administration would ‘pause for thought’ on the Chagos plan.
The biggest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia, hosts a US-UK military base. Starmer had tried to complete a handover deal under which Britain would pay the Indian Ocean island £3.4 billion over a century to secure continued use of the crucial military base.”
In February, Trump warned Starmer that he was ‘making a big mistake’, called it ‘an act of great stupidity’.
BREAKING:
Trump writes that he has talked to Keir Starmer about his decision to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos islands from the UK to Mauritius.
Trump writes that no matter what happens, the U.S. won’t give up its military base on Diego Garcia. pic.twitter.com/ttYuY53Vya
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 5, 2026
“The agreement was meant to avoid a potentially painful and expensive legal dispute with Mauritius over the former colony. Indeed, after Trump’s intervention last month, Mauritius said that it was exploring legal tools against London.
[…] The decision to put the agreement on hold follows increasing tensions over the military cooperation between Britain and the U.S. Starmer refused to support the American-Israeli attacks on Iran, and he allowed Washington to use U.K. military bases only for defensive strikes.”
The Chagos Archipelago will remain British — at least for now
The United Kingdom has backed away from transferring the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius under pressure from the United States. The move had previously been strongly criticized by Trump.
One of the islands, Diego… pic.twitter.com/ItyMKQq4lS
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 11, 2026
In the meantime, Mauritius has vowed to regain control of the Chagos Islands even after Starmer’s reversal.
The Telegraph reported:
“Dhananjay Ramful, the Mauritian foreign minister, told an Indian Ocean conference in Mauritius: ‘We will spare no effort to seize any diplomatic or legal avenue to complete the decolonization process. This is a matter of justice’.
[…] Under the terms of the shelved plan, Britain would have ceded sovereignty of the Chagos to Mauritius and paid around £35bn to lease the air base back for 99 years.”
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