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Lord Callanan (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 February 2025

Debate

Chagos Islands

Contribution

My Lords, the leader in the Times this morning says that this agreement is “the worst negotiated by a British government in living memory”. It goes on to say that the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General “have taken leave of their senses”. Current Labour Cabinet Ministers describe the deal in off-the-record quotes to the BBC as “‘terrible’, ‘mad’ and ‘impossible to understand’”. At a time when Labour Ministers seem to spend half their time at this Dispatch Box bemoaning the supposed black hole in the public finances, how does it make any sense whatever to spend up to £18 billion leasing back an island that we already own?

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