00:00I want to go back slightly there. I was I literally had my breath taken away at this clip.
00:06The prime minister just said in that press conference about the Chagos Island surrender a short while ago.
00:12Take a listen. Against it, Russia, China, Iran.
00:20And surprisingly, the leader of the opposition and Nigel Farage are in that column alongside Russia, China and Iran,
00:27rather than the column that has the UK and its allies in it.
00:33What do you make of that? Well, let's get the reaction now of GB News, the senior political commentator, Nigel Nelson.
00:39Nigel, before we go to the broader implications, do you think there's something especially shabby and uncalled for there
00:44about trying to draw the inference that anybody who disagrees with this is in the same camp as Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin?
00:52The Chagossians are utterly devastated of this.
00:54And to use this moment as a broadside against Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage,
00:59a lot of people are feeling felt especially shabby.
01:03Well, there's certainly going to be an argument in the House of Commons later.
01:08And Keir Starmer was obviously preparing the ground for that.
01:13The point about this is that it's essential to keep Diego Garcia as a military base.
01:19We already have it.
01:21Sorry, I missed that, Martin.
01:23We already had it.
01:24We didn't need to do this deal to keep control of the base because we already had control of the base.
01:29Well, no, because we were going to have to give up the Chagoss Islands.
01:34So don't think of it as paying for the privilege of giving something up.
01:39Think of it more on the lines of paying to lease a military base.
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