WATCH: Priti Patel unleashes furious rant at Labour for Chagos handover - 'absolute stain!' - video Dailymotion

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Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel has launched a scathing attack on the Labour Government over its decision to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, describing it as "an absolute stain" on the country.The criticism comes as Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed an agreement today transferring sovereignty of the disputed territory.READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00It wasn't to be.

00:01Well, I was following this from about 11.30 last night

00:04till, you know, when the interim judgment came out

00:07that put an injunction on all of this.

00:09And I was with the very lovely Chagostian community

00:11that you showed earlier on.

00:13This is devastating.

00:15But, you know, I'm going to be really quite blunt about this.

00:17This absolutely will define this rotten Labour government.

00:21The fact that they just don't care about Britain,

00:23Britain's place in the world,

00:25flying the flag of the United Kingdom.

00:26This is about the sovereignty of the British Indian Overseas Territory,

00:31which, by the way, we own already.

00:33And now they're basically giving it to the government of Mauritius.

00:36We don't even know how much that's going to cost.

00:39Put that into the context of your wonderful viewers

00:42who go out to work every day, pay their taxes,

00:47pay more taxes under this awful government with Rachel Reeves and co.

00:51And yet this Labour government has refused to even say

00:54what the total cost of this will be.

00:56And we've been speculating for months

00:58that this will be in the billions of pounds.

01:00That's billions of hard-pressed taxpayers' cash.

01:03It's an absolute stain, quite frankly, on our country

01:06and a stain on our democracy

01:07because Parliament has not had the chance to do the scrutiny.

01:11I've got a letter here that I wrote to Calamity Lammy

01:14back in March, the 28th of March,

01:17where still endless questions that have been put to him

01:20have been unanswered.

01:21And just one final point.

01:22We've been told that there'll be a statement in Parliament

01:24later on today.

01:25I push for questions every day,

01:27urgent questions, statements.

01:29The Defence Secretary will be given the statement.

01:32He's obviously substituting for David Lammy,

01:34who is clearly too much of a coward,

01:36to come to the House

01:37and actually start answering not just these questions,

01:40but the hundreds that still remain unanswered

01:43by backbenchers in Parliament.

WATCH: Priti Patel unleashes furious rant at Labour for Chagos handover - 'absolute stain!'

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