If one is in any doubt as to Great Britain’s decline and fall, look no further than 20 January, when we alienated ourselves from our once-held global status and from our allies and partners. Donald Trump took to social media that morning to declare that Britain’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was an ‘act of great stupidity’. The US president followed this up by telling Keir Starmer to ‘fix your country’. Never had truer words been spoken. Several hours later, the British government gave the green light for the construction of a new Chinese super-embassy in London. That decision demonstrated not a care in the world for the deleterious security risks this monstrosity would pose.

Labour’s actions reek of geopolitical and economic illiteracy

Labour’s actions reek of geopolitical and economic illiteracy. Ever since it agreed in May last year to lease the sovereignty of Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos islands, to Mauritius for 99 years at an average cost of £101 million per year, the government’s inability to comprehend the security ramifications of this agreement has been nothing short of stupefying.

Read the text of the agreement, and the reason behind this deal is clear: ‘decolonisation’. In this day and age, anything signed in the name of ‘decolonisation’ should be viewed with immense suspicion. In the realm of global security, there is........

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