Member

So my Amendment 11 requests that the Government seek additional guarantees about the renewal of the base: that it should be on the same terms as or better terms than previously, given the way the deal is in other respects stacked in Mauritius’s favour. This should not be too difficult to negotiate if we had negotiators who actually negotiated in Britain’s interests and were not exponents of the art of the bad deal, which they seem to be in this and many other areas. It is also important that, when the Government look again at the terms of the lease, Parliament should be given a chance to look at any guarantees that they secure about the renewal of the lease in the longer term. That is in my proposed new subsection.