Member

As the IRDC report noted, a series of Governments have failed to engage properly with the Chagossian community. I hold my hand up. This Government take responsibility for what we have done, and the former Government need to do the same. More so than our predecessors, we take responsibility. They started these negotiations three years ago. They had every opportunity to reach out, at every point, to the Chagossian community, but they seem to have found their voice when it comes to listening to the Chagossians and speaking with them only once they found themselves in opposition. We are working hard to rectify that, because the way that the Chagossians have been treated is wrong. That is why we have established the Chagossian Contact Group.