🚨Row brewing tonight after latest “shocking” Chagos argie bargie in the Tele. A senior Trump administration official tells me: “We are confused at why @KemiBadenoch is attacking @Nigel_Farage.” “I'm surprised by the idea that a Conservative government would not let us access that base. “That's shocking to me.” “We are confused by what Kemi Badenoch is saying. “We understood Nigel Farage's comments to mean that we would get perpetual use of the base, which, frankly, we've always had. “The only disturbance in that equilibrium, that partnership, has been the Labour government trying to give the Chagos Islands away in this kind of self-abnegating, anti-colonial interaction. “It sounds like Kemi is now saying she would not [access]. “The fact that the UK would hand over the islands in the first place comes as a surprise to us in the context of our alliance. “We want the UK to come to its senses on Chagos. “We hear a lot of squabbling that doesn't make much sense. 
 “What to do with these islands is obvious, which is not a seed to anti-civilizational, third world lawfare and activism. “Stand up for what's yours. “Stand up for what's historically been yours.” More to come…