Tom Tugendhat has posted on X to criticise the way Foreign Secretary David Lammy has handled the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands.
Mr Tugendhat said:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The old principle that we used to apply was the Wilson principle, the principle of self determination. That the foreign secretary may remember is the defence of the Falkland Islands, the defence of Gibraltar. He's now just violated that principle. By undermining the rights of the Chagosian people in favour of a claim that was abandoned in 1965, never really made because it was only administrative and never properly governed from Mauritius anyway.
And in favour of a court whose judgment was advisory. He sold out the sovereignty of the British people.
Truly, nobody apart from a boy called Jack has ever made a worse deal on the way to market. He's come back with a handful of beans that he's trying to sell as a prize.
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