Starmer’s Chagos Islands betrayal to cost ten times more than claimed | Politics | News
According to official figures, Sir Keir will cost 10 times more expensive than Starmer’s plan for Chagos Islands.
The government’s estimation of delivering the British lands of the British Indian Ocean to Mauritius is almost £ 35 billion, and the documents published within the scope of the Freedom Freedom Law show – Sir Keir’s public referring to the public is much higher than £ 3.4 billion.
The ministers of the study are now facing the accusations they mislead with the parliament and the press with the “Accounting Cheat” to hide the real scale of the bill from the taxpayers. The news comes as the figures reveal that Mauritius defeated England in the ranking of financial freedom.
In accordance with Sir Keir’s agreement, Britain will give up the Chagos Islands by the end of this year and rented the Diego Garcia Military Base, a facility used by the UK and US forces, built in the 1970s.
The price tag was warmly appealed. Sir Keir, taking into account inflation and other discounts in May, will be £ 99 billion, and conservatives would be £ 30 billion.
An official article from the government actuar department shows that the cost was first placed nominal to £ 34.7 billion – the figure of ten times Sir Keir.
Sometimes it determines how the number is reduced by using inflation assumptions before it is reduced under a controversial accounting method used for long -term projects.
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The ministers refused to leave the total to the parliament. A total of 10 queen Elizabeth -class aircraft carrier or more than half of the budget of annual schools can be compared.
In February, Sir Keir is accused of misleading the parliament after the deputies showed that the estimates between £ 9 billion and £ 18 billion were “absolutely wide ve and the real figure is lower.
According to the document, civil servants were first instructed to reduce the cost of the title on the paper to 10 billion pounds using an estimated inflation rate of 2.3 percent for 99 years.
Later, the Treasury’s social time preference rate was cut again between 2.5 and 3.5 percent per year, the idea that the money spent at the moment is more valuable than the funds allocated for the future.
The final number was calculated as 90 percent lower than the cash value of England’s payments to Mauritius for the next century, and critics are a deliberate attempt to mislead the public.
Dame Priti Patel, the Foreign Secretary of the Shadow for the telegraph, said: şey Instead of having costs, the worker used an accounting trick to claim that the amount was only $ 3.4 billion.
“We all know that this is a terrible agreement to the challenging British taxpayers with great costs. But for months, ministers in public and parliament tried to cover up the real amounts.”
The sources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that ministers use a “standard önemli calculation for long -term government expenditures, and rejected the accusations that it was part of a“ covering up.
However, other labor announcements were not based on the same method and allowed ministers to trumpet higher spending on popular policies. Since then, Angela Rayner has launched a 10-year affordable home plan, which has increased inflation levels in government expenditures as part of the cost, an unused method.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was sent by Express by E -Post for comment.
The calculations behind the agreement appeared in response to the demand for Freedom of Information (FOI) presented by the conservatives.
A Government spokesman said: “Diego Garcia Military Base England and the key allies are necessary to keep the British people safe.
“The average cost is £ 101 million per year and the current value of payments is 3.4 billion – less than 0.2 percent of this annual defense budget.”
