Sir Andrew Mitchell

Sir Andrew Mitchell

Conservative — Sutton Coldfield

Speaking in the House of Commons on 5 February 2025

Debate

Chagos Islands

Contribution

I want to try to be helpful to the Minister. I was the Deputy Foreign Secretary throughout much of the negotiations and I am in a position to tell the House that neither my right hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Cleverly) nor the noble Lord Cameron in the other place would ever, as Foreign Secretary, have done the deal that the Government are now intent upon. I think the Minister must be praying every night for a “get out of jail free” card—that, when the American Administration come to look at the deal, they will veto it and get the Government off the hook.

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