内容摘要：That call was one week before Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles towards Ukraine's capital, according to Ukraine's air force.

That call was one week before Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles towards Ukraine's capital, according to Ukraine's air force.

The putative legal challenge is based on a series of judgements by various United Nations bodies that the Chagos Islands belong to Mauritius.Essentially, they argued the UK had no legal right to separate the islands from Mauritius before the former British colony became independent in the 1960s.

There were votes to that effect in the UN General Assembly.But then in 2019 there wasMinisters feared these rulings and opinions would soon become a legally binding judgement by this UN tribunal.

to identify the source of this legal threat, Healey said: "There's a range of international legal challenges and rulings against us."The most proximate, the most potentially serious, is the tribunal of the International Convention of the Sea."

If the government lost a case there, ministers argue, the outside world would be obliged - by law - to take decisions that would interfere in the running of the base.

So they argue Diego Garcia's satellite communications would be threatened because the UK relies on a UN authority in Geneva to get access to a particular electromagnetic spectrum.Tony Blair, who opened the doors in 2004, recognised this in his autobiography A Journey. The "tendency for those on the left was to equate concern about immigration with underlying racism. This was a mistake. The truth is that immigration, unless properly controlled, can cause genuine tensions… and provide a sense in the areas into which migrants come in large numbers that the community has lost control of its own future… Across Europe, right wing parties would propose tough controls on immigration. Left-wing parties would cry: Racist. The people would say: You don't get it."

Sir Keir has felt some of that heat from his own side since launching the White Paper. In response to his warning about Britain becoming an "island of strangers", the left-wing Labour MP Nadia Whittome accused the prime minister of "mimic[king] the scaremongering of the far-right".The Economist, too, declared that Britain's decades of liberal immigration had been an economic success - but a political failure.

There is a world of difference between Keir Starmer and Enoch Powell. Powell believed Britain was "literally mad, piling up its own funeral pyre" and that the country was bound to descend into civil war. Sir Keir says he celebrates the diversity of modern Britain.But even if his plan to cut migration works, net migration will continue to flow at the rate of around 300,000 a year. Sir Keir's plan runs the risk of being neither fish nor fowl: too unambitious to win back Reform voters; but illiberal enough to alienate some on the left.