Britain’s Giveaway of Land Under Crucial Indian Ocean U.S. Airbase Goes Ahead After Legal Challenge Overturned—
A last-minute legal bid to prevent the British government spending billions of pounds of taxpayers money to give away its own sovereign territory, home to an important U.S.-UK military base, and then lease it back has been overturned.
The UK government of left-wing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is clear to give away the British Indian Ocean Territory, an archipelago of around 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean after an eleventh-hour legal challenge was overturned.
As previously reported, a “stay of action” order was issued by a High Court judge at 0230 BST this morning, blocking a signing ceremony to hand over the islands today, but at a second hearing later in the morning a different judge overturned that.
