Letter: Handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius undermines UK national security

A letter from Stevan Patterson:

Foreign Secretary David Lammy is presiding over the transference of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritiusplaceholder image
Foreign Secretary David Lammy is presiding over the transference of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius

The shameful decision by the Labour government after little over three months in power to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius without doubt severely undermines UK national security.

However the opposition, the Conservative Party, has no right to criticise - after all they did the same with Northern Ireland by handing sovereignty here over to the EU.

Stevan Patterson, Castlederg

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