Martin Callanan

🚨 Huge news: The FCDO admits a crucial detail that destroys the government’s basis of their Chagos Islands deal

NEW: Shadow Foreign Office Spokesman, Lord Callanan has written to the Foreign Office Minister, Baroness Chapman of Darlington, to confirm that ministers will seek to amend the 1966 Treaty with the USA before proceeding with the Chagos Bill.

According to *his own book on the matter*, the architect of the Chagos deal, Philippe Sands, literally coordinated with Russia to ensure that Russia’s claim to Crimea— not recognised by the UK— would not be harmed

Please read. This is what our govt is throwing away in Chagos, for no good reason. ‘Without intending to be melodramatic, my visit to the British Indian Ocean Territory genuinely changed my outlook on the world. During my month long visit to the Chagos Archipelago, I glimpsed a world largely untouched by the activities of mankind, and realised how depleted the reefs and islands of our planet had become. My trip ruined every future holiday for me, because I know that I will never find a place with such natural beauty, but this is a small price to pay for the privilege of experiencing such a rare tropical wilderness. It would be a tragedy if the unique expanses of wilderness across the Chagos Archipelago were to be in any way degraded. The greatest value of the British Indian Ocean Territory lies in its nature, the exuberance of which is what makes the Chagos Archipelago so special. As the last large system of wild tropical islands on Earth, they offer a final chance for us to conserve an entire tropical island ecosystem as a benchmark so that we may measure our impacts elsewhere across the globe.’