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A furious row has erupted between Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch over the Chagos Islands.

The Tory leader took aim at the Reform UK boss over “humiliating” comments on a podcast about the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Mr Farage told the Benny Show: “I’d have gone in and said, ‘Right, you know what, mate? Chagos, it’s yours. Diego Garcia, in perpetuity, the most strategic American military base in the world, which it is.

“Outside mainland America, Diego is the most important thing America has for nuclear subs, for long-range bombers, for all of it. I’d have said, ‘Right, I’m guaranteeing you that. I’m giving up on this surrender. In return, just please stop talking about the Falkland Islands. I know you like Milei, but this really matters to us’. And there’s a trade, you see.”

Speaking to The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch hit back: “Giving away British territory in return for someone keeping quiet is not a deal. It is humiliating.”

A Reform spokesman later added that it was “quite clear Nigel was talking about the Americans using Diego Garcia in perpetuity and not the Chagos Islands as a whole”.

Mr Farage wrote on X: “Kemi is lying again. She just can’t help herself.”