Foreign Office Congratulates Mauritian PM for £30 Billion Chagos Surrender Deal – Guido Fawkes

Foreign Office Congratulates Mauritian PM for £30 Billion Chagos Surrender Deal

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Newly installed British High Commissioner to Mauritius Paul Brummell has wasted no time congratulating Mauritian PM Navin Ramgoolam for the Chagos surrender deal, praising the “historic” sellout. Historic for all the wrong reasons…

Brummell replaced Charlotte Pierre earlier this month, after a series of embarrassing leaked phone calls between UK officials – including Pierre herself – found their way onto a Mauritian Facebook page during the height of the Chagos talks last October. Unsurprisingly feeding into security concerns around Diego Garcia…

Now, in a gushing Mauritian government press release, Brummell is quoted “congratulating the PM on his role in the signature of the historic Chagos Archipelago Agreement.” The Foreign Office official joins Beijing in applauding Mauritius’s £30.3 billion payday at the UK taxpayers’ expense. What’s the going rate for surrendering national interest these days?