{"id":76461,"date":"2026-02-23T03:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/22\/nigel-farage-accused-of-maga-stunts-chagos"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:51:33","slug":"nigel-farage-accused-of-maga-stunts-for-saying-he-was-denied-access-to-chagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76461","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage accused of \u2018Maga stunts\u2019 for saying he was denied access to Chagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelago<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage has been accused of \u201cperforming Maga stunts\u201d after claiming the British government stopped him from travelling to the Chagos Islands on a humanitarian mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Reform UK leader said he had flown to the Maldives to join a delegation bringing aid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/17\/four-chagossians-return-to-islands-in-attempt-to-stop-british-transfer-to-mauritius\">four Chagossians who are trying to establish a settlement<\/a> on one of the archipelago\u2019s islands to protest against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/20\/uk-to-hand-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-despite-trumps-taunts-no-10-says\">Britain\u2019s plans to transfer control of the territory to Mauritius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/22\/nigel-farage-accused-of-maga-stunts-chagos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelagoNigel Farage has been accused of \u201cperforming Maga stunts\u201d after claiming the British government stopped him from travelling to the Chagos Islands on a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1808,753,415,319,1091,755,3303,4,3506,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-wallace","category-chagos-islands","category-donald-trump","category-foreign-policy","category-maldives","category-mauritius","category-nigel-farage","category-politics","category-reform-uk","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76461\/revisions\/76462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}