The UK government has risked a diplomatic row by accusing the Mauritian Prime Minister of painting a “factually inaccurate” portrayal of the proposed deal between the two countries over the Chagos Islands.
Downing Street made the unusually critical intervention about a foreign leader on Wednesday after Navin Ramgoolam told his parliament that an earlier version of the deal did not factor in inflation, among other disputed claims.
Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson criticised Ramgoolam’s depiction of the deal: “He has got those figures — or at least the way he was characterising it — wrong. The summary of the deal was plainly aimed at a domestic political audience, but it is factually inaccurate.”
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