06/01/2026 10:31
The Guardian
Conservative leader questions robustness of rules-based international order and says ‘the world has changed’Peers inflicted four defeats on the government last night as they debated the bill to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, PA Media reports. PA says:The government signed a treaty back in May to return sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which will also see Britain lease back the strategically important military base on Diego Garcia – the largest island within the remote Indian Ocean archipelago.As well as establishing a £40m fund for Chagossians expelled from the islands, the UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120m annually during the 99-year agreement, a total cost in cash terms of at least £13bn.The UK supports the rules-based international system. We have seen it creaking at the seams, and now we see it disintegrating.It is our responsibility collectively to rebuild the rules-based international system, because a world in which countries are abiding by the same rules and working with each other is a world in which we are all safer, but we are a far cry from where we have been, sadly, since the Second World War in terms of upholding that rules-based international system. Continue reading...
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