Isle Be Damned?

The Labour benches are almost deserted as David Lammy reads out his drivel about the Chagos Islands, but all Opposition factions are out in force. There are lots of obviously planted questions from the Labour freshers, many of whom would appear to have been actual freshers very recently, while their party's grownups are conspicuously absent.

But in reply to Jeremy Corbyn, Lammy has just confirmed that the Chagossians will not be able to go back to Diego Garcia, because it is to be a foreign power's military base at British expense for at least 140 years. Shameful. Utterly shameful. And he talks about "this treaty", even though the negotiation of a treaty has not yet officially begun.