
GB News' Home and Security Editor Mark White delivered some breaking news this morning as a British patrol ordered a group of Chagossians to leave the island, threatening them with arrest. It comes after former MP Adam Holloway planted the Chagossian flag on a remote island beach in an act of defiance against Keir Starmer's surrender deal.
Holloway sailed through a British-imposed exclusion zone to land on Ile du Coin on Monday alongside Chagos Islanders who are determined to establish a settlement there. However, White explained on today's GB News: "We just had confirmation from those islanders that a British Indian overseer's territory patrol has arrived on that atoll and served both those on the island and those on a boat nearby with papers demanding that they leave the island completely and quickly, or they will be arrested."
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He then revealed some exclusive images of people on board a boat, including Holloway, an ex-British Army officer who served as a Captain in the Grenadier Guards and had served with papers.
White said: "They are coming back to pile pressure on the British government... We are told, and this is from someone coming on the boat, part of the delegation... "
Holloway has branded Starmer's Chagos deal "crazy" and said it was wrong to hand billions "to corrupt politicians in Mauritius rather than paying for our own defence."
A government spokesperson said: "The UK government recognises the importance of the islands to the Chagossian community and is working with Mauritius to resume a programme of heritage visits to the Chagos Archipelago. This kind of illegal, unsafe stunt is not the way to achieve that. The vessel does not pose any security risk to Diego Garcia."
GB News viewers took to X to comment on the breaking announcement, with one writing: "Oh the irony!! This Labour government is corrupt."
A second added: "This awful, rotten shower in government is a joke. It's becoming a farce. We are a laughing stock around the world."
A third noted: "Disgusting, it's their land." Another penned: "The UK’s ongoing control over the Chagos Islands continues to enforce strict restrictions on the displaced population."
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