Why giving up the Chagos Islands could cost Britain £9bn

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  This is the Guardian.

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  Today, an historic deal over the Chagos Islands turns source.

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  Hi, hello, Olivier.

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  It's Hannah calling from the Guardian.

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  Hello?

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  Hello?

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  Can you hear me?

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  Okay?

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  There aren't many stories about Westminster politics that start with a call to Mauritius.

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  Speaking.

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  This is Olivier Bankou.

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  He's lived in Mauritius for over 50 years,

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  but he was born 2000km further east across the Indian Ocean on Perros Banyos,

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  one of the atolls that makes up the Chagos Islands.

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  I left Chagos in 1968.

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  Oh, it smells like something is attached to my heart.

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  We are surrounded with the sea, with many fish.

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  We have lots of coconut trees.

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  We can create jobs.

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  The islands were once part of Mauritius

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