Keir Starmer's Chagos deal is 'reparations' to 'apologise for decolonisation', Badenoch claims

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has launched a scathing attack on the Government's Chagos Islands deal, describing it as a "horrible surrender" of British territory.Speaking to GB News, Badenoch criticised Prime Minister Starmer's decision, claiming the motivation behind the deal was "reparations" and "to apologise for decolonisation".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Will you take a decision on whether you want to remain in the ECHR?

00:03We are going to come out with a new policy on how we approach all of the lawfare.

00:08I thought you were going to say we are going to come out.

00:09I thought we were going to do a Robert Jenrick on us.

00:11Well, Camilla, I've said if we have to come out, we will come out.

00:15I think you're leaning towards coming out. Can I say that?

00:17From the first time I interviewed you as leader to now,

00:20am I correct in making the observation that you are heading in the direction of leaving?

00:25Every day I see a new case that looks like the ECHR is unsustainable.

00:28That's a yes then, isn't it?

00:29Every day I see a new case, but it's not just the ECHR.

00:31It's the Refugee Convention and looking at so many other things.

00:34Look at this international law madness that means that Sama has given away the Chagos Islands.

00:39It's £30 billion.

00:40You look at the memo that was sent.

00:43Why are they doing this? It's reparations.

00:45It's to apologise for decolonisation.

00:47This is British territory. We have a strategic military base there.

00:50It's going to cost us £100 million every year.

00:53That's 2,000 nurses every year that we could be having that we're giving that out.

00:58You can tear that up and you can tear up the EU deal.

01:01Can you really?

01:01EU deal, yes we can.

01:04When you give territory away, it's a lot harder to get it back.

01:06But what are Brussels going to say when you take that reset deal and tear it up?

01:10But they knew that before they set it.

01:12Can you do it legally?

01:13Of course we can change it. We left the EU, didn't we?

01:15How about the Chagos deal?

01:16We left the EU. The Chagos deal is a lot harder.

01:18When you give territory away, it's a lot harder to get it back.

01:21That is why what Keir Starmer did is so wrong and so immoral.

01:23In the spirit of you not fooling the electorate, you've got to be honest.

01:26I mean, you can't say we're going to tear up the Chagos deal if you can't.

01:28We're voting against the deal now.

01:30We're voting against the deal now.

01:32But unfortunately, there's 120 Conservative MPs.

01:35We're going to lead a lot of Labour MPs to see sense.

01:38And this is what I said.

01:39The last election, people swapped out about 250 Tory MPs for about five Reform MPs.

01:44We now don't have the numbers.

01:46And we've got 70 Lib Dems as well, who are well to the left of Labour.

01:49We don't always have the numbers to overturn things.

01:51But we're going to vote against the Chagos deal.

01:53It is a horrible surrender.

01:54It's bad for the Chagosians.

01:56The Islanders don't like it.

01:57We lose a strategic military base.

01:59And you know the worst bit?

02:00Mauritius, an ally of China, collaborating with Russia, should not do that.

02:06But if you can't do anything about it, then we're stuck with it.

02:09We can do something about it now.

02:11We are the opposition.

02:12But it's going to go through because you lost the last general election.

02:14You don't have the numbers.

02:15No, it's going through because Labour are making bad decisions.

02:18We're not the government now.

02:19I can't be held responsible for what Labour does.

02:21You laid the foundation.

02:22Like so many things.

02:23It's a nonsense argument.

02:24Hang on.

02:24There's a credible argument for saying, oh, why is the welfare bill so high?

02:28Why are taxes so high?

02:30Why is immigration so high?

02:32Why have we got Labour rocket fueling a Chagos deal?

02:35And the tentacles always lead back to the Conservatives.

02:38They lead back to 14 years of bad decision making.

02:42What were you even doing entertaining the idea of doing a deal on Chagos?

02:46David Cameron stopped those talks.

02:47There was an advisory ruling from a court that doesn't have jurisdiction.

02:50Wasn't James Cleverley up to his neck in it when he was Foreign Secretary?

02:52Who was the last Foreign Secretary?

02:54It was David Cameron.

02:55He was Foreign Secretary.

02:56And he said no to that.

02:58He stopped that deal.

02:59No Conservative minister signed any deal.

03:01James Cleverley didn't.

03:03David Cameron didn't.

03:04We stopped those talks.

03:05There are always talks that happen about these sorts of things.

03:08But the point I'm making is that we were in government for 14 years.

03:11We got some things right.

03:12But towards the end, we got a lot of things wrong.

03:14But I'm not responsible for those things.

03:16There were many things I tried to stop.

03:17I am the new leader and we are changing things.

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