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Burnham ‘will push ahead with Chagos deal.’

Mauritian ministers assured handover will go ahead by senior Foreign Office official

Camilla Turner

Diego Garcia, an island in the Chagos archipelago home to a US-UK air base, would be leased back for £35bn under the deal Credit: US Navy/Reuters

Andy Burnham is to press ahead with the deal that cedes the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, according to a senior Foreign Office official.

Robbie Bulloch, the director of the Foreign Office’s overseas territories and polar directorate, met Gavin Glover, the attorney general of Mauritius, last week and said that plans to give the archipelago to Mauritius were “unlikely to change”. DT