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Alhamdulillah that you also know about our dignity. We would rather eat grass than request Pakistan to open the routes or trade. In the end, they themselves will regret it and fall at our feet, asking for the routes and trade to be reopened. This is a challenge —...

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Let me be absolutely clear: the greatest strategic threat we face today is China. It is acting in open defiance of international law, militarising vital sea lanes, threatening its neighbours and preparing for blockades that would choke global trade. The Chagos Islands sit at the heart of those east–west trade routes. At a moment when China is rapidly building a navy that will soon rival the United States, this Labour Government has chosen to give up one of our most critical strategic assets. That is not realism, it is recklessness. Handing Chagos to Mauritius, a country with close ties to Beijing, weakens our security and that of our allies. Worse still, Mauritius has made clear it will not allow nuclear weapons on the islands. Once sovereignty is transferred, that restriction applies in full. The Government’s ambiguity on this point is dangerous. The treaty is rushed, badly drafted and ignores the binding UK–US agreement that requires Chagos to remain under British sovereignty. You cannot quietly trade away a strategic base and hope no one notices. Let me also be clear about the human cost. What was done to the Chagossians in the past was wrong, morally wrong, and we must own that. But this treaty does not put them first. I would rather do a direct deal with the Chagossians themselves: allow them to return, restore their rights, and compensate them properly under continued UK control. If we allow this surrender to go through, we will look back and know that we gave away control of one of the most critical places on earth at the very moment the free world could least afford it.

Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green

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