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Great British PACWhy our cross-party success rattles the left
The left keeps trying to force the Great British PAC into a tidy political box. The trouble is we refuse to fit the caricature — and our Chagos coalition proves it.
Claire Bullivant · 23 June 2026Self-Determination for All But the Chagossians: The Guardian's Lopsided Chagos Story
The Guardian gave a sympathetic platform to one Chagossian delegation backing the Mauritius handover, while the majority who wish to remain British were left out entirely. That silence tells its own story.
Claire Bullivant · 12 June 2026Chagos Isn't For Sale, America
Washington is reportedly weighing whether it could simply buy the Chagos Islands. But a homeland is not a property transaction, and no cheque can extinguish a people's right to decide their own future.
Claire Bullivant · 8 June 2026Advance UK Members Vote 87% to Merge With the Great British PAC
Advance UK members have backed joining the Great British PAC by a landslide, with 6,442 voting yes and 921 no, clearing the way for a bigger patriotic movement.
Great British PAC · 8 June 2026Don't Let Whitehall Paperwork Wipe Out the Dartmoor Pony
A native breed that outlasted invasions, wars and the Industrial Revolution now faces a threat from grazing rules drawn up in Whitehall. We are watching Dartmoor closely.
Great British PAC · 7 June 2026Chagos Saved, For Now: Starmer Forced Into Retreat as Pressure Mounts
Plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius have been put on ice. With the enabling legislation missing from the King's Speech, the surrender deal is now in serious trouble.
Great British PAC · 10 April 2026Historic Win for Chagossians as Court Restores Their Right of Abode
A landmark Chagos judgment has struck down the unlawful removal of the Chagossians' right of abode, a cause the Great British PAC has helped fund all the way to court.
Great British PAC · 31 March 2026The Chagos Judgment That Changes Everything: Law, Fiction and a People's Return
A ruling in the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has torn down the legal wall that kept the Chagossians from their homeland for over twenty years. We explain why it matters.
Claire Bullivant · 31 March 2026Chagossians Back in Court Fighting to Stay on Their Ancestral Islands
A handful of Chagossian islanders who sailed home face British authorities in a rare BIOT Supreme Court sitting in London, fighting removal orders that would force them off their ancestral land.
Great British PAC · 13 March 2026High Court Blocks Chagossian Judicial Review as Timing Raises Questions
The High Court has refused permission for the first Chagossian Judicial Review over consultation rights. The Great British PAC is asking hard questions about why the ruling took four months and landed days before the next hearing.
Great British PAC · 10 March 2026Court Blocks Deportation of Chagossians Who Returned to Their Homeland
A judge handling the case mid-flight over Africa stopped four native Chagossians being thrown off their islands — a peaceful homecoming our campaign was proud to fund.
Great British PAC · 20 February 2026Defence Veterans Side With Trump and Condemn Starmer's Chagos Plan
A bloc of more than 80 American and British defence and political figures has lined up behind President Trump, denouncing the proposed Chagos handover to Mauritius as a perilous error.
Great British PAC · 19 February 2026Chagossian Claimants Demand Urgent Re-Hearing After Four-Month Court Silence
Nearly four months after an urgent High Court hearing produced no ruling, Chagossian representatives have filed an emergency application to have their stalled judicial review put before a fresh judge.
Great British PAC · 13 February 2026Transatlantic Heavyweights Rally Behind Trump as Chagos Plan Ignites a Firestorm
Over 80 American and British defence veterans, lawmakers and scholars have lined up behind Donald Trump to brand Labour's Chagos handover a reckless strategic gamble.
Great British PAC · 30 January 2026Trump Brands Starmer's Chagos Surrender "Stupid" as Pressure on Labour Mounts
Donald Trump has torn into Labour's plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it an act of stupidity and leaving Sir Keir Starmer facing a fresh revolt at home.
Great British PAC · 21 January 2026Chagos Must Stay British: How Starmer's Security Case Fell Apart
Sixteen reasons the surrender of the Chagos Islands no longer holds up, from a collapsed security argument to a possible £35bn bill and a live legal challenge.
Claire Bullivant · 17 January 2026Lords in Uproar as Labour Loses Chagos Vote — Then Speaker and Whip Halt a Decisive Division
Labour scraped the Chagos surrender Bill through Third Reading only after losing a regret motion and re-running a contested voice vote four times — a sequence our campaign calls a breakdown in due process.
Great British PAC · 13 January 2026Chagossian Leader Calls on Britons to Halt Labour Handover of British Territory
On the eve of a decisive Lords vote, the Chagossian Government in Exile is pleading with the British public to stop Labour signing away the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 11 January 2026Peers Defeat Starmer Over Chagos as Lords Demand Treaty Rethink
The House of Lords has derailed the Government's Chagos timetable, voting to force a renegotiation of the Mauritius treaty and exposing deep unease over a deal critics call reckless.
Great British PAC · 6 January 2026Chagos: We Funded a Judicial Review. What Use Is It If the Verdict Comes Too Late?
Our CEO Claire Bullivant on a fully argued Judicial Review left undecided while Labour rushes an irreversible Chagos deal through Parliament over the festive break.
Claire Bullivant · 31 December 2025Letter to America: Defending Chagossian Self-Determination and US Security
Chagossian interim First Minister Misley Mandarin makes a direct appeal to America: stand with an exiled people seeking self-determination and protect the future of Diego Garcia.
Misley Mandarin · 27 December 2025Labour's Own Survey Condemns Its Chagos Surrender
The Government commissioned its own consultation of Chagossians. The verdict it delivered is damning: the deal to hand the islands to Mauritius has no consent from the people it affects.
Great British PAC · 17 December 2025Chagossians Declare a Government in Exile to Halt the Chagos Surrender
A people exiled for over fifty years have voted to form their own Government in Exile, electing an interim First Minister in a last bid to stop Britain handing their islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 16 December 2025Still Waiting for Justice on Chagos: Why That Pending Judgment Matters
The High Court still hasn't ruled on whether our Chagos Judicial Review can go ahead. A fresh UN intervention has raised the stakes — here is what hangs on this case.
Claire Bullivant · 9 December 2025UN tells Britain: halt the Chagos handover until the islanders are heard
A UN race-discrimination body has urged London and Port Louis to freeze ratification of their Chagos deal, warning it tramples Chagossian rights and international law.
Great British PAC · 8 December 2025Starmer's Chagos Betrayal: Labour Tears Up Its Own Manifesto Pledge
Labour swore in 2024 to defend the sovereignty of Britain's Overseas Territories. Now it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and critics say the Prime Minister lied to the country.
Great British PAC · 3 December 2025Chagos Consultation in Crisis as Peers, MPs and Advocates Cry Foul
Parliamentarians, Chagossian groups and policy experts say the House of Lords survey on the Chagos deal is compromised, insecure and open to foreign interference.
Great British PAC · 2 December 2025Labour Caves on Day-One Unfair Dismissal Rights After Lords Defeats
After repeated Lords defeats and a fierce business backlash, ministers have scrapped plans for day-one unfair dismissal rights, replacing them with a six-month qualifying period.
Great British PAC · 29 November 2025The Record Refutes the Minister: Chagossians Were a Permanent, Self-Organising People
Baroness Chapman told peers the Chagos Islands had no permanent population and were never self-governing. A century of church registers, court rulings and UN findings says otherwise.
Claire Bullivant · 22 November 2025Tories Carry the Fight for Chagossians as Labour Vanishes from Lords Debate
More than two dozen Chagossians filled the public gallery to watch the Lords debate the future of their homeland. Conservative peers led the scrutiny while Labour barely showed up.
Great British PAC · 19 November 2025Survey: Chagossians Overwhelmingly Want Their Islands to Stay British
The largest consultation of Chagossian opinion ever undertaken hands a resounding verdict: keep the islands British. More than 99 per cent reject any handover to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 18 November 2025Mauritian Turmoil Over Chagos Deal Stokes Diego Garcia Fears in London and Washington
As Port Louis quarrels over its Chagos pact with Britain, the squabbling itself has rattled Western officials worried about who will really control access to Diego Garcia.
Great British PAC · 14 November 2025The Chagos Islands, Britain and the Tuvalu Precedent
Dr Dan Boucher argues that international law puts self-determination above frozen colonial borders. The Mauritius Treaty sidelines Chagossian rights, when a British precedent shows a better way.
Dr Dan Boucher · 11 November 2025Chagos Bill Stalls in the Lords After Labour Pulls Its Committal Motion
Ministers have abruptly shelved the committal motion on the Chagos Bill, freezing a Lords vote after an all-night lobbying push by Chagossian campaigners and the Great British PAC.
Claire Bullivant · 4 November 2025Chagossian veteran begs the Lords to “stop this injustice” before Tuesday’s debate
A Chagossian who wore British uniform has written to every peer, pleading with the House of Lords to throw out the Government’s plan to hand the islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 3 November 2025The Chagos Mistake: Alarm Grows That Starmer's Deal Opens the Indian Ocean to China
Surrendering the Chagos Archipelago has rattled defence chiefs and parliamentarians on both sides of the Atlantic, who fear Diego Garcia's security is being quietly traded away.
Claire Bullivant · 31 October 2025High Court Hears Labour's Chagos Surrender Was Built on "Unlawful Decisions"
Three British Chagossians have taken Labour's giveaway of the Chagos Islands to the High Court, where judges heard the Government acted unlawfully by shutting them out of decisions about their own homeland.
Great British PAC · 28 October 2025Backed by GBPAC, Chagossians Take Their Case to the High Court on Tuesday
Two linked claims from British Chagossians land before London's High Court this Tuesday. The Great British PAC and its donors helped carry the fight that far.
Great British PAC · 27 October 2025People Power: Why Every Action You Take Truly Counts
One of our Email Warriors asked whether any of it matters. Here is the honest answer, with the receipts: from a paused consultation to a won apology to a funded judicial review.
Caroline Smith · 1 October 2025Outrage as Officer Snatches Union Flag From 16-Year-Old at Newcastle Rally
A liaison officer was filmed wrenching the Union Flag from a teenage girl's hands in Newcastle. Our complaint, now seen by more than 1.2 million people, demands answers.
Great British PAC · 20 September 2025Seven Months In: GBPAC's Legal and Grassroots Campaigns Build Momentum
Just seven months after launching, the Great British PAC reports a run of victories and bold new campaigns, telling supporters it is reshaping the landscape of British politics.
Great British PAC · 19 September 2025Mandelson Is Gone — Now Washington Must Reopen the Chagos Deal
Lord Mandelson's removal from Washington has knocked the props out from under Starmer's Chagos surrender. The assurances he claimed to have secured have vanished with him.
Great British PAC · 12 September 2025Wheelchair Basketball Team Apologises After GBPAC Pressure Over Anthem Protest
After our campaign and a wave of public anger, British Wheelchair Basketball has quietly apologised to Israel's team for an anthem protest at the Nations Cup in Cologne.
Great British PAC · 9 September 2025Our “On Notice” Warning Is Already Stalling Turbines and Solar Farms
Our blunt warning to the green energy industry is already biting — and now we are calling on Reform UK and the Conservatives to put it in writing and finish the job.
Great British PAC · 12 August 2025White Britons “Banned” From MI6 Internship: The PAC Demands Answers
Our Young People’s Director Sophie Corcoran has written to the Prime Minister and the spy chiefs, branding an intelligence internship that bars white working-class students “state-sanctioned racial discrimination”.
Great British PAC · 6 August 2025More Than 40 British Leaders Ask Trump to Halt the Chagos Surrender
A cross-party group of over 40 senior British figures has written to President Trump, warning that handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius would imperil the Diego Garcia base and Western security.
Great British PAC · 4 August 2025Good Behaviour Insurance: A Market-Led Answer to Britain's Migration Mess
The Great British PAC proposes making every visa applicant buy private Good Behaviour Insurance — letting underwriters, not Whitehall, price the risk of overstaying, fraud and crime.
Andrew Hunt · 4 August 2025Mayor Bristow Backs Our Fight After Police Drop Balfour Portrait Case
We have written to every Cambridgeshire MP and county councillor demanding a review of the shelved Balfour portrait investigation — and the region's mayor has now joined our call.
Great British PAC · 29 July 2025GBPAC Takes Cambridge Portrait Case to Police Commissioner
Our university leaders have written directly to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough PCC, demanding answers after police dropped the case over a vandalised Lord Balfour portrait at Trinity College.
Great British PAC · 26 July 2025GBPAC Presses Trinity College Over Dropped Balfour Portrait Vandalism Case
We have written to Trinity College, Cambridge, demanding answers after police abandoned the investigation into the defacing of a historic portrait of Lord Balfour publicly claimed by Palestine Action.
Great British PAC · 18 July 2025Cross-Party Coalition Tells British Museum: Hands Off the Elgin Marbles
More than 30 politicians, peers, lawyers and academics have backed a Great British PAC letter demanding the British Museum abandon any secret plan to hand the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece.
Great British PAC · 11 July 2025Pressure Mounts to Pause Chagos Deal as Court Case and MP Doubts Grow
With our Judicial Review now before the High Court, the lead Chagossian claimant has asked MPs to hear his community directly and freeze any sovereignty transfer to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 1 July 2025Labour MPs Break Ranks Over Chagos Deal, Warning of Betrayal and Environmental Risk
Senior Labour figures including Emily Thornberry are now publicly questioning the Chagos treaty, raising alarm over Chagossian rights, environmental safeguards and a glaring lack of democratic scrutiny.
Great British PAC · 30 June 2025High Court Fast-Tracks Chagossian Case Against the Government
The Judicial Review demanding Chagossians be consulted before their homeland is signed away has passed its first major test, with the High Court ordering an urgent timetable.
Great British PAC · 30 June 2025Chagossians Take the Government to the High Court Over Sovereignty Deal
Two British Chagossians have launched a Judicial Review, backed by the Great British PAC, to stop ministers handing the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius without lawfully consulting their people first.
Great British PAC · 25 June 2025£30bn to Give Chagos Away: Labour Dodges Scrutiny on the Bill
Steve Doughty boasted about transparency, then could not say how the £30.3 billion Chagos handover splits between Whitehall departments. Watch this space.
Great British PAC · 24 June 2025The Original Blueprint: While Others Copy, GBPAC Is Already Building for the Whole Patriotic Right
A new outfit, the Centre for a Better Britain, sounds a great deal like us. Here is why the Great British PAC was there first — cross-party, grassroots and already in motion.
Claire Bullivant · 22 June 2025Ben Habib and the Great British PAC Refuse to Bow to Hope Not Hate
When Hope not Hate tried to intimidate our directors over old social-media likes, Chairman Ben Habib answered with defiance — and the response went viral.
Great British PAC · 19 June 2025Seven Patriotic Groups Unite to Stand for Our Sovereignty
We have joined Conservative Post and five other patriotic organisations behind a new Facts4EU.Org campaign to halt the quiet surrender of Britain's independence before it is lost for good.
Great British PAC · 13 June 2025The Chagossian Veteran Taking On Keir Starmer Over His Stolen Homeland
A British Army veteran and Chagossian, Misley Mandarin is staking everything on a legal fight to halt Labour's secretive £30 billion handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 3 June 2025Crowdfunder Launched for Judicial Review to Halt the Chagos Betrayal
With Parliament weeks from voting on the £30+ billion Chagos surrender, our campaign is racing to fund a Judicial Review and shield British Chagossian Misley Mandarin.
Great British PAC · 2 June 2025Ben Habib to Match Every Pound in Legal Fight Against the Chagos Betrayal
Our chairman Ben Habib will double every donation up to £10,000 as the Great British PAC races to shield the British Chagossian fronting a Judicial Review of the Government's secret Chagos deal.
Great British PAC · 2 June 202510,000 Sign Our Petition Urging MPs to Block Starmer's Chagos Surrender
More than 10,000 Britons have backed our petition in under a week, demanding Parliament throw out Keir Starmer's secretive handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 31 May 2025Scotland's Silenced Majority Deserves a Voice, and the Great British PAC Delivers
Our County Director for the Scottish Borders explains why pro-UK voters north of the border are crying out for the kind of organised, bottom-up movement the Great British PAC has built.
Peter Morris · 29 May 2025Beijing Cheers the Chagos Deal Starmer Swore China Opposed
The Prime Minister insisted Russia, China and Iran stood against his Chagos surrender. Then China's own ambassador offered “massive congratulations” — and MPs want answers.
Great British PAC · 29 May 20253,000 Sign Overnight: Public Demands MPs Kill the Chagos Surrender Deal
Our petition to halt the Chagos handover passed 3,000 signatures in under 12 hours. The message to Parliament is plain: reject this undemocratic, costly deal.
Great British PAC · 26 May 2025High Court Halts Chagos Treaty in Overnight Ruling That Stunned Ministers
Hours before the UK was due to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a Chagossian claimant won an emergency overnight order freezing the treaty. Our campaign was proud to help.
Great British PAC · 22 May 2025Starmer's EU Reset Will Backfire — Our Great Repeal Is Coming in 2029
Labour calls its EU "reset" a diplomatic triumph. We call it surrender. Here is why the Great British PAC is already building the Great Repeal for 2029.
Great British PAC · 18 May 2025Chagos Deal Paused: Campaigners Hail a Win for Britain — For Now
Downing Street has halted its plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius amid fury over the cost and the threat of a backbench revolt. Campaigners are claiming a victory.
Great British PAC · 16 May 2025Reclaiming Our Campuses: A Call to Students to Stand Up for Britain
Jake Reed, our Universities Director, explains why the Great British PAC is building a nationwide network of young patriots to bring real debate back to campus.
Jake Reed · 12 May 2025Union Jack to Rule the Roost as Reform UK Councils Adopt PAC Flag Plan
Our campaign floated it, and now it's flying. Reform UK-run councils in England are moving to scrap rainbow, EU and political banners, leaving only the Union Jack, St George's Cross and county flags on official buildings.
Great British PAC · 5 May 2025Help Us Build a Great British Savings Plan
We are crowdsourcing the policies and tax breaks that would reward Britons for saving and investing at home. Add your ideas to our Policy Platform and help shape the Great British Savings Plan.
Great British PAC · 29 April 2025Our New Survivor Archive Will Expose the Grooming Gang Truth
As Labour shelves five grooming gang inquiries, the Great British PAC's Donna Edmunds is launching a national survivor archive to record the truth and pursue justice.
Great British PAC · 14 April 2025Chagos Surrender Breaks International Law — The Right Must Unite to Defend Britain
Self-determination is a binding norm no treaty can override, and neither the Chagossians nor the British people consent to Starmer's giveaway. GBPAC Policy Director Andrew Hunt argues the right must act now.
Andrew Hunt · 1 April 2025Youth Revolt Spreads as Britain's Young Voices Defend Northern Ireland's Democratic Rights
From Cambridge to Cardiff, young Britons are rallying behind Northern Irish peers who say Labour has engineered the biggest reversal of UK citizenship in our history.
Great British PAC · 31 March 2025Farage Rides the Pothole Wave: Our Policy Platform Resurfaces British Politics
Our new participatory democracy site, PolicyPlatform.co.uk, is already shaping the 2025 elections — and one crowdsourced idea about potholes has caught Nigel Farage's eye.
Great British PAC · 29 March 2025The Great British PAC Arrives: A New Patriotic Force in UK Politics
Britain's first privately funded political action committee has launched, drawing on the American PAC model to unite the right and ready it to govern by 2029.
Great British PAC · 22 March 2025The Free Muskosphere: A Free-Speech Tariff Zone, Proposed by the Great British PAC
What if censorious governments paid a literal price for muzzling their citizens? The Great British PAC sets out a bold trade idea that rewards free-speaking nations and tariffs the censors.
Great British PAC · 22 February 2025Britain's Quiet Coup: The Activist Judges Hijacking Our Democracy
An unelected judicial elite is overruling ministers, gagging MPs and rewriting policy without a single vote cast. This is not the rule of law. It is rule by lawyers.
Claire Bullivant · 20 February 2025How Great British PAC's Migration Research Reshaped Government Policy
When Kemi Badenoch warned that Labour's migration failures could leave taxpayers facing a £200 billion bill, the figures had a familiar ring. They grew directly out of our campaign.
Great British PAC · 10 February 2025Make Mining Towns Great Again: An Underground Nuclear and AI Revolution
Britain's forgotten mining towns could become the most prosperous, high-tech places on the planet. Our Policy Platform sets out how underground reactors and AI could level them up.
Andrew Hunt · 7 February 2025Could Ben Habib Be the Man to Unite Britain's Fractured Right?
Sharp-witted, fearless and never afraid of a scrap, Ben Habib is back with a bold new venture. Could the Great British PAC be the vehicle that finally brings the right together?
Great British PAC · 27 January 2025Cross-Party Heavyweights Tell Starmer: Bin the £9bn Chagos Sell-Out
Truss, Farage, Braverman, Habib and Rees-Mogg are among the signatories of a blistering open letter demanding the Prime Minister halt his rushed surrender of the Chagos Islands.
Great British PAC · 15 January 2025Starmer Forced Into Chagos U-Turn as Cross-Party Pressure Bites
Downing Street has paused its rushed handover of the Chagos Islands after a cross-party revolt, with Priti Patel branding the retreat a “complete humiliation” for Labour.
Great British PAC · 15 January 2025Experts Urge Trump to Block Labour's Chagos Handover to Mauritius
Defence experts, opposition voices and Chagossians are demanding Donald Trump intervene to stop Labour surrendering the strategically vital Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
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