Why so quiet?
UnsplashLeaks, spokesperson comments and official announcements on the UK’s Chagos Islands sovereignty deal with Mauritius have been curiously absent from the mainstream press recently.
Opposition MPs have also been frustrated at the lack of information from government replies to their questions. One minute the deal is said to be imminent and the next no date able to be set.
Treaty negotiations are still ongoing.
Meanwhile Guido Fawkes, the political gossip website, has been busy reporting this month that:
James Cartlidge MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, has asked the government to confirm if the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff Tony Radakin discussed the Chagos Islands with Gen Liu Zhenli Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Liberation Army on a recent trip? The Government did not confirm this. It was the first visit in 10 years for a UK Chief of Defence Staff apparently.
Gavin Glover, the Attorney General and chief Chagos deal negotiator in Mauritius, has been in Geneva defending the country in the face of allegations of torture by the UN Committee on torture.
No wonder the Mauritian Attorney General has not answered emails from THE CHAGOS FILES.
Tessa clarke/29.4.25