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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 25 November 2025

Debate

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Contribution

If the court looked at the difficulty without full regard for the Chagossian people because they were not fully represented then it is clear that it could work on the basis that the territorial integrity of the pre-November 1965 colony should not have been changed by the UK prior to decolonisation. However, given the Tuvalu-Ellice Islands precedent, there is still a difficulty because of the caveat in the judgment which states that the separation was wrong unless based

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