Sir Keir Starmer has promised the Falkland Islands are ‘British and will remain British’, as the matter of control over the territory is ‘personal to him’. The Prime Minis

The British Government announced on Thursday it is giving up sovereignty of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Both the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar will remain British, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged. The Labour government’s decision last week to hand sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius prompted fierce criticism from the Conservatives and concerns about the future of the UK's other overseas territories.