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 2025Baroness 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 2025More 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 2025The 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 2025As 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 2025Dr 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 2025Ministers 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 2025A 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 2025Surrendering 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 2025Three 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 2025Two 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 2025One 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 2025Stories originally reported by our sister title, the Conservative Post. Join the PAC to get them first.
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