Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start | Simon Jenkins
Labour says it is committed to other ‘overseas territories’, but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dear The British empire still sends governments mad. Labour’s Foreign Office minister in charge of its lasting shreds, Stephen Doughty, has granted the isolated Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the sovereignty of independent Mauritius. This…