But the more we learn about the extent of his influence, the more he comes across as some Svengali figure behind the scenes.

Ceding the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is meant to keep the Diego Garcia military base London has said Britain ceded its last ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

The UK government insisted on Monday that the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar was "not up for negotiation" after it said it would return a remote archipelago to Mauritius.

Downing Street said the decision over the British Indian Ocean Territory was because of its unique circumstances.

Fears that Britain could hand over Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands have been cooled by a cabinet minister amid fury over ...

The population was cleared to make way for the large Diego Garcia military base from the late 1960s .Mauritius is demanding ...

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign secretaries would ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.