Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State in the previous Trump administration, hit out at the Chagos deal in a bombshell interview released just hours before the arrival of the US President to the UK. In an interview with The Ross Kempsell Report, he said of National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell: “He’s strategically an absolute fool… it is a small group of islands… no one does travel there, but a lot of military power can and will move through there in the event that we need it… you will have Chinese power projection from that place… you do not want Chinese aircraft flying over Europe out of these islands, that’s nuts”.
Mr Pompeo also called on Sir Keir to scrap the Chagos deal with Mauritius and said he thought the US could still reverse it.
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