Keir Starmer’s government was outwardly bullish on Tuesday, with his spokesman insisting that “the U.S. supports the deal.”Pool Photo by Andy Rain via EPA

Trump punishes Starmer with bombshell Chagos intervention – POLITICO

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LONDON — Just as Keir Starmer was scrambling to smooth things over with Donald Trump, the U.S. president fired an unexpected rocket the British prime minister’s way.

London awoke Tuesday to a Truth Social post from Trump slamming Britain’s decision to hand control of the Chagos Islands — home of a joint U.K.-U.S. military base at Diego Garcia — to Mauritius.

The British government had long thought the deal was squared with the U.S. administration, but Trump decried it as an act of “great stupidity” that will only embolden Russia and China.