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'Forensic scrutiny' made Labour pull Chagos Surrender Bill
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January 25, 2026
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13:09Now PlayingShadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel rejected the idea that the Tories did not successfully force the government to back down on the transfer of Chagos Island to Mauritius - and that Donald Trump was responsible.
"No - I have to say that's just wrong. I've led the work on this since last year, since this whole Treaty that went through parliament - it didn't actually go through parliament scrutiny and we thrashed the government on that"
"And made it perfectly clear that we are unhappy about that - and it was through forensic scrutiny, over 160 parliamentary questions forcing debates which the government did not want - really putting them under scrutiny".
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