‘Better late than never.’ That’s how Reform party leader Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s sudden and dramatic repudiation of the United Kingdom’s Chagos handover. ‘This should be enough to sink just about the worst deal in history.’

Early this morning, Trump used his Truth Social account to lay into ‘our “brilliant” Nato ally, the United Kingdom’, over Keir Starmer’s decision to ‘give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital military base, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.’ But what’s striking about Trump’s sudden focus on the future of Diego Garcia is that he’s decided to do it now –  amid the high-level row over the future of Greenland and almost exactly a year since he appeared to green-light the move, standing alongside Keir Starmer in the White House.  

Farage blames Keir Starmer’s National Security Adviser for ‘deliberately lying to our closest ally’

Back in February, despite numerous entreaties from Trumpworld figures, including Farage, and statements of concern over........

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