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Britain

Trump 'Outright Hostile' to UK Surrendering Strategic Air Base

2024-11-14

[Breitbart] The incoming Trump is administration is openly hostile to the UK government’s push to give away a key strategic island in the Indian ocean, the Labour minister fending off criticism by repeatedly emphasising the Biden White House likes it, which apparently makes everything alright.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage MP was granted an urgent question in Britannia’s House of Commons, the main legislating chamber, on Wednesday afternoon on the shock announcement last month that the UK government was giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) to Mauritius. The question is of major interest to the United States and the wider Western intelligence and defence community given one of the U.S. military’s most strategic bases is on the largest of the BIOT islands, Diego Garcia.

Leveraging his closeness to the incoming Trump administration, something he can uniquely claim among perhaps every member of the 650-seat house, Farage made clear his understanding that the new Trump White House would not take kindly to the treaty to hand over the islands in return for assurances from Mauritus that the UK and U.S. could keep their base there and that other islands wouldn’t then be handed over to adversaries like China being signed.

Mr Farage told the chamber: "I warned the Foreign Secretary six weeks ago in this chamber that it was an enormous mistake to do this given that we had a U.S. Presidential election coming up on November 5th.

Posted by:Skidmark

#1 Next up, Falklands.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-14 07:29

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