shadow foreign secretary dame priti patel told gb news the deal is a huge national security risk. >>st four months, we cannot forget the fact that starmer's government had been trying to railroad this deal through while joe biden was in the white house and before president trump was inaugurated, because they knew that the americans would run the slide rule over this terrible deal and questioned the whole issue of national security. we know that the mauritians have closer relations and links with china. there's no guarantee that the chinese will not actually put listening stations and put actually their national security apparatus on the archipelago and the surrounding islands, and this is a major threat to us all. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more from me in half an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> good morning britain's newsroom bev and andrew hope you've got your hands free to hold your head in the next couple of minutes while we talk about what man