Boris and Liz in Chagos Islands’ blame game

Mauritius is getting the Chagos Islands – and a lot of Tories ain’t happy. Tom Tugendhat calls it a ‘shameful retreat’; Robert Jenrick bemoans the ‘dangerous capitulation.’ The Telegraph calls it a ‘national scandal’ while the Mail splash screams it is ‘Starmer’s surrender.’ So with the Tory tribes raising a hue and cry, who better to articulate patriotic harrumphing than Boris Johnson? As part of his book tour, the former premier was grilled last night by Camilla Tominey on GB News. Asked for his reaction to the decision, Johnson called it:

Crazy. I mean do, I urge viewers of GB News to get out your maps, get out your atlases, check out the Chagos Islands and see where Mauritius is. It’s a long way away. What is this claim? It’s nonsense. It’s total nonsense. Why are we doing this? It’s sheer political correctness. A desire to look like the good guys.