Starmer Temporarily Banned From Signing Chagos Surrender Deal – Guido Fawkes

Starmer Temporarily Banned From Signing Chagos Surrender Deal

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The government has been temporarily blocked from the planned ‘virtual signing’ of the Chagos giveaway today after an injunction was granted by a High Court Judge. Mr Justice Goose granted “interim relief” to Chagossian Bertrice Pompe who brought the case against the Foreign Office:

 “The defendant shall take no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government or bind itself as to the particular terms of any such transfer.”

The court will hear the case at 10:30 this morning…