Britain is preparing to suspend the constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands as a long-awaited inquiry is expected to find evidence that the country has been plagued by endemic corruption.
In what threatens to become an unedifying row over the scope of the government's obligations to its Commonwealth territories, the Observer has established that the Foreign Office has already prepared a statutory instrument giving parliament the power in effect to hand control of the Caribbean islands to the UK-appointed governor. Full story...
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