Georgia Pearce
Guest Reporter
Nigel Farage has said the Trump administration is unhappy about the Labour government handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “I've been very unhappy about the surrender of British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.
“Unhappy for lots of reasons, one being, of course, that the Chagossians themselves don't want it to happen. They want to go back and live in those islands under British, not Mauritian rule.
“But I had a feeling right from the very start what would happen if we got a different American president after the elections on November 5th and I was very pleased today that the speaker called me for an urgent question immediately after Prime Minister's questions.
“So Mike Waltz, a former Army colonel, he's in fact the first ever special forces soldier to be elected to Congress in Washington.
“Mike Waltz has been made National Security Adviser by Donald Trump, obviously subject to Senate approval, but I can't see a problem.
“And he wrote to Secretary of State Blinken under Biden in 2022 when this process of handing over the islands was begun, unbelievably by the Conservative Party, unbelievably, by James Cleverly.
“Then he wrote to say that if Britain was to enter a deal like this, it wouldn't be unlike Americans giving up the Bagram Air Base…
“I spoke to Steve Bannon the other day. Yes, I know he's a controversial figure, but he's been a very senior advisor to Trump, and a big voice in the American right, former US Navy officer, and he said Diego Garcia is the most important island in the world as far as America is concerned.
“And yet, government ministers today insist that the Americans are happy with the deal. I think they're going to have to eat their own words.”
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Speaking on GB News, he said: “I've been very unhappy about the surrender of British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.
“Unhappy for lots of reasons, one being, of course, that the Chagossians themselves don't want it to happen. They want to go back and live in those islands under British, not Mauritian rule.
“But I had a feeling right from the very start what would happen if we got a different American president after the elections on November 5th and I was very pleased today that the speaker called me for an urgent question immediately after Prime Minister's questions.
“So Mike Waltz, a former Army colonel, he's in fact the first ever special forces soldier to be elected to Congress in Washington.
“Mike Waltz has been made National Security Adviser by Donald Trump, obviously subject to Senate approval, but I can't see a problem.
“And he wrote to Secretary of State Blinken under Biden in 2022 when this process of handing over the islands was begun, unbelievably by the Conservative Party, unbelievably, by James Cleverly.
“Then he wrote to say that if Britain was to enter a deal like this, it wouldn't be unlike Americans giving up the Bagram Air Base…
“I spoke to Steve Bannon the other day. Yes, I know he's a controversial figure, but he's been a very senior advisor to Trump, and a big voice in the American right, former US Navy officer, and he said Diego Garcia is the most important island in the world as far as America is concerned.
“And yet, government ministers today insist that the Americans are happy with the deal. I think they're going to have to eat their own words.”
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