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Nigel Farage has written to David Lammy calling for an urgent debate on what he deemed as a “surrender” regarding the Chagos Islands. The Reform UK leader published the letter he has written to the Foreign Secretary, requesting a debate on the issue once Parliament is recalled from recess tomorrow. The deal – reached after years of negotiations that began under the Tories – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US-UK base will remain on the island of Diego Garcia – the biggest of the islands in the archipelago. That played a key part in enabling the deal to go forward …

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