White House official accuses Badenoch of 'peddling fake news' in a Chagos row with Farage

Summary

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage appeared to suggest on a US podcast, the Benny Show, that the Chagos Islands could be handed to America in return for Donald Trump remaining silent about the future of the Falkland Islands, saying: 'Chagos, it's yours. Diego Garcia, in perpetuity', HuffPost UK reported. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch called it 'loose talk from a man who wants to be responsible for Britain's national security', adding that 'The Chagos Islands are British. And the Falklands are British', and in an extraordinary intervention a White House official accused Badenoch of 'peddling fake news and undermining the Anglo-American relationship', according to HuffPost UK. Labour wants to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while paying for a 99-year lease to retain the US-UK military base at Diego Garcia, a deal now on ice after Donald Trump condemned it, HuffPost UK said, and The Independent reported a furious row between Badenoch and Farage over the Falklands and the Chagos Islands.

Latest: A White House official accused Kemi Badenoch of 'peddling fake news and undermining the Anglo-American relationship' after the Tory leader attacked Nigel Farage, who appeared to suggest trading the Diego Garcia military base for Donald Trump's silence on the Falklands, HuffPost UK and The Independent reported.

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