Rupert Lowe

It could be almost anywhere.

We just sent a whole load of English money out to Mauritius.

I mean, they're getting tax cuts out there.

So, you know, we've given the Chagos Islands away when we didn't need to.

We've sort of...

Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, but the Chagos Islands, basically a lot of Chagossians live in Crawley here.

And they didn't want us to, they didn't want to be part of Mauritius.

And what's happened is Keir Starmer and Herma and Philippe Sands, this sort of bunch of human rights lawyers, you may or may not know the history, we actually paid Mauritius some money in 1963 when we gave her independence.

so that she had no claim on the Chagall signs.

Arguably, the Seychelles and the Maldives have a bigger claim on the Chagall signs that are 1,300 kilometers away from Mauritius.

But these human rights lawyers have indulged their fantasies and at the expense of the British taxpayer.

I mean, we don't quite know what the number is.

It's somewhere between 18 and 30 billion over the next 90 years.

We've literally handed that to Mauritius, who've now given a tax cut to their citizens on the back of it.

But the Chagossians, a lot of them live in Crawley here.

So, you know, they didn't want the deal to happen.

They basically don't like the Mauritians.

What is that?

Well, I think a lot of them do dislike what Britain was.

I think they have this sort of hatred of colonial Britain, which...