Trump tells Starmer: Let me strike Iran from Chagos or I’ll sink deal

Donald Trump is refusing to back Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal again unless the Prime Minister allows the US to use the islands to strike Iran. The US president is understood to have asked to use Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK base on the islands, in the event that America decides to launch strikes on Iran. He has repeatedly threatened to take mili...