Chaotic scenes in the Commons yesterday as ministers scrambled to resuscitate Starmer’s Chagos deal. As co-conspirators know, Trump slammed the plan, and the deal is now effectively dead…
But it’s not just Reform and the Tories who are on the march. Even Labour MPs are going cold on the government’s plan – with Blackley and Middleton South MP Graham Stringer already having spoken out against it. Now Liverpool Walton MP Dan Carden has weighed in:
“I am sorry that I am the only Labour backbencher who wants to speak… I have followed this matter as closely as possible, and I have gone along with the Government up to this point, but it has been against my instincts. I still cannot understand exactly what we are doing here. International agreements do not protect us against our enemies or our allies; sovereignty does. I genuinely think that the people we represent will be asking, “Why can the Prime Minister not step forward, assert sovereignty over these islands, and make it clear that we have the military defence to defend them?”
Guido has spoken to multiple Labour MPs in private who oppose the deal. Will Starmer listen to his own MPs on Chagos?
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