Toryse accused PM of tax deduction for Mauritius with Chagos Deal

The Sir Kire Stmper has defended the £ 3.4BN deal of the UK to hand over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while maintaining control of the UK-US military base over Diego Garcia.

On the Prime Minister's questions, the conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called it a “terrible” deal and asked “Why on Earth” British taxpayers should pay for tax deduction in Mauritius.

Last week, Mauritius Prime Minister Naveen Ramgulam said that money from the Chagos deal will be used for loan repayment, as part of a budget package that 80% of workers will be exempted from income tax.

The Prime Minister said that Britain took a risk on Diego Garcia, threatening the “important intelligence and strategic capacity” without a deal.

He said, “Legal uncertainty will compromise in very low order,” he told the MPs, “No responsible Prime Minister will let this happen”.

He said: “We have achieved the basis for a long time and have been welcomed by our colleagues – by the US, by NATO, Australia, New Zealand, India.

“This has been opposed by our opponents – Russia, China and Iran. And other columns we add improvement, after Putin, and after correction torses.”

But Badenoch insisted that the deal was “nothing to do with national security”, saying that when she was in government, she saw security briefing and it was “earlier a bad deal and it's still a bad deal”.

Negotiations to hand over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius began under the previous orthodox government.

Under the terms of the transaction agreed by labor, the UK will use the Diago Garcia base for a period of 99 years.

Britain will pay £ 165m in each in the first three years. From four to 13 years, it will pay £ 120m per year. After that, payment will be indexed for inflation.

Sir Keir says that this will be average at a cost of £ 101m per year, although the figure is disputed by conservatives, who say that it will be much higher.

In its budget, Naveen Ramgulam announced a plan to reduce Mauritius' public sector loan to 60% GDP over the long term.

“These estimates are included in revenue from Chagos, which will be used for loan repayment for the first three years,” he said A speech for the country's Parliament.

He also announced that 80% of the workers would not pay income tax, but higher grossers would pay more.

It comes as a panel of experts, which urges the UK to re -organize the Chagos deal as it fails in the “guarantee” of the rights of the Chagosian people.

The panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council stated that “it was seriously concerned about the lack of meaningful participation of Chagosians in the processes that have been motivated to compromise”.

Philip Sands Casey, who represented Mauritius in a long -running legal battle with the UK on Chagos Islands, stressed that it was not the case.

He told the House of Lords Committee, “I really want to knock the idea that not all Chagosians were involved in various processes. This is not just true.”

“This is true, however, that the Chagosian community is divided and I respect that division.”

The “Kwid Pro Quo” for the remaining military base on Diego Garcia was that Chagosians would be allowed to settle on the outer islands of the archipelago, he told the companions.

He said that he understood the “bitterness and injury” of the Chagosian community in Britain, who was forcibly exiled from Diego Garcia and who wishes to return and would not be able to return “.

But he said that “Most of Mauritius and Seychelles have made a lot of clear … that they want to move forward” – and they were deeply involved in consulting the gradual head ministers of Mauritius “.

He told the colleagues that the deal “will increase Britain's position in the world” as a country that respects the rule of law “.

It follows the 2019 advisor Rai from the International Court of Justice, stating that the islands should be handed over to Mauritius.

Mr. Sands, who revealed that he had become a Mauritius citizen in 2020, he could attend the hearing in the person during the Kovid epidemic, he said that he was not working for the country's government “supporters” bones “, but could not say how much he was paid.

He also paid tribute to Liz Trus, who said that he had stopped the conversation during his brief tenure in number 10.

It is disputed by Trus, who blamed Boris Johnson for starting the process when he was PM.