The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden’s pressure on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. According to the Telegraph, Biden administration officials told their British counterparts that a refusal to give up the Chagos Islands in the Indian Sea would jeopardize the U.

Joe Biden pushed the UK into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the US would lose control of an important air base, The Telegraph understands.

Last Thursday, Vanessa Calou got a phone call from a number in Mauritius. “They said, ‘I think Mauritius got Chagos’, and I could not believe it,” she says.