Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal.
Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, after becoming the first people ever to file asylum claims there.
The government has previously opposed bringing the group to the UK and complex legal battles have been fought for years over their fate.
In a letter on Monday, government lawyers said that “following further consideration”, the government had proposed a “change of policy”.