The Prime Minister will require an Act of Parliament to sign over the strategically important Chagos Islands over to Mauritius.

Sir Keir Starmer is set to be forced to hold a Commons vote on the handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The Prime Minister said the agreement with Mauritius secures the long-term future of a joint UK-US military base.

The British government has announced it will cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement that ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony while maintaining a key US-British military base in the archipelago.

Sir Keir Starmer will be forced to hold a vote on the Chagos Islands amid fury over his decision to hand them over to Mauritius. The Government said on Thursday that the strategically important Indian Ocean archipelago would be transferred,