Starmer Suggests Chagos Surrender Will Be Paid for With Defence Budget

Badenoch asked Starmer at PMQs if he could confirm that “none of the defence uplift includes payments for his Chagos deal.” A highly pertinent question since yesterday which no minister has been able to answer…

“The additional spend I announced yesterday is for our capability on defence and security in Europe as I made absolutely clear yesterday – the Chagos deal is extremely important for our security, for US security – the US are rightly looking at it.