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Donald Trump U-turns on Chagos |
"Chagos" is only one letter different from "chaos", which is what Donald Trump has unleashed. His overnight post on Truth Social savaging Keir Starmer's plan to pay Mauritius to take the Chagos islands off Britain's hands seems a brutal way to treat an ally. How significant it is for the Chagos deal depends on whether Trump means it, because it can hardly go ahead if the US opposes it, as the purpose is to secure the US air base on Diego Garcia. David Maddox, our political editor, who was in the White House when the president approved the deal last year, suggests that Trump's relationship with Starmer is deteriorating. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, admitted that Trump's approach to "geopolitical discussions" was "not normal" – as Emmanuel Macron is also discovering – but insisted "British diplomacy is working". |
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President Donald Trump on the Chagos deal |
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