US President backs down over Labour prime minister’s plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal the government says is necessary to secure the future of the crucial UK-US Diego Garcia military base

US president appears to have changed his mind after PM made new pledges to protect US military base

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US President backs down over Labour prime minister’s plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal the government says is necessary to secure the future of the crucial…

US president says deal, which he previously described as act of ‘great stupidity’, was ‘best’ PM could make

Despite calling it earlier an ‘act of great stupidity’, Trump signals support of Starmer’s Chagos deal.