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Corbyn demands Chagos justice as cost row erupts

JEREMY CORBYN told the Commons today that the government must give the Chagos Islanders the right to return to their homes as a row erupted over the cost of the deal restoring sovereignty over their homeland to Mauritius.
The independent MP, who has campaigned for justice for the islanders for decades, argued that “this is an issue of decolonisation.”
He said: “In international law, the Chagos Islands have become part of Mauritius.
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