Boris Johnson has warned he is “genuinely anxious” Sir Keir Starmer will hand the Falklands to Argentina after his disastrous decision to hand over the Chagos Islands. The Prime Minister signed over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to an ally of China – Mauritius.

Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were British-owned from 1814 but have now been signed away by the Government in a deal that it claimed would safeguard global security by ending a long-running dispute.

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.