After US President Donald Trump’s go-ahead, the United Kingdom and Mauritius are expected to seal the Chagos Islands deal this week

Reform UK’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, has slammed the Government’s potential Chagos deal after Donald Trump appeared to give it his backing. Nigal Farage’s party, he added, would carry on fighting against the proposed arrangement, which would see the UK yield sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-UK military base in the Chagos Islands, in a boost for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

I think we’ll be inclined to go along with your country,” President Donald Trump said to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and all the journalists who had crowded into the Oval Office.

Donald Trump indicates he will be prepared to back Sir Keir Starmer's deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside the prime minister, the president says: "We're going to have some discussions about that very soon,