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

British sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar is not up for negotiation, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he told MPs the islands “are British and will remain British”.Concerns over the territories were raised after the Government announced its decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands,

The Prime Minister said the Falkland Islands 'are British and will remain British' and added that sovereignty in Gibraltar 'is equally not to be negotiated'

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.