The Tory leadership hopeful, who was seen as the standout contender after the party conference, blasted Labour's decision to give the archipelago to Mauritius as 'weak, weak, weak'.
James Cleverly was last night at the centre of a blame game over his role in the Chagos Islands being given away.
Mr Cleverly held a meeting with Mauritian foreign minister Alan Ganoo the following March and later told MPs there had been ‘four rounds of constructive negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty’. Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Fears that Falklands will be the next to go after UK surrenders control of the Chagos Islands But Conservatives questioned why he had criticised the move, given he was in charge of talks for a year.
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Chagossians in UK accuse Keir Starmer of treating them like 'second-class citizens' A third insider said: ‘MPs have been saying to us they just don’t know why he tweeted about it. His name is all over this. He just didn’t need to do it but has provided the ammunition for people like Tom Tugendhat.’
It was only after Cleverly was replaced by Lord Cameron last November that the UK blocked further talks over the island
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