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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 November 2025

Debate

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Contribution

would not be taken into consideration. So that treaty signed in 1982 denied rights in perpetuity. The significance of this treaty now is that we are changing our relationship with the Government of Mauritius on the basis of the community.

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