The Tory leader says Labour's negotiations could cost the UK billions; the prime minister questions whether Badenoch has been "properly briefed" on UK security.

Keir Starmer's Chagos deal would weaken the West's ability to help allies like Australia face Chinese power grabs while threatening UK imports and exports along vital International shipping lanes, says a new report.

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to Mauritius under a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

The UK government has denied claims made by the prime minister of Mauritius that it faces paying billions more under a renegotiated deal over the future of the Chagos Islands.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Okay, we’ll see when more detail comes out. Can I turn then to the really big news today, which is Donald Trump’s idea of turning Gaza into an American-owned Riviera, a sort of a big property development, and the Gazans being moved out to Egypt and Jordan. What do you think of it?

What a fool I was. In 2020, my wife, our son and I endured a miserable, lonely Christmas, because we were dutifully following the lockdown rules.

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much as President Trump uses unpredictability as a diplomatic tool, I can predict one thing for sure: there is no way he will allow Britain to give up its sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.