British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming to India on Wednesday for a two-day bilateral visit, his first since he assumed office in July 2024. He will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend the Global Fintech summit in Mumbai.

This is a reciprocal visit by the British PM, after Modi travelled to the UK in July this year and they signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

The FTA has the stamp of a bipartisan consensus in the UK — and that tells the story of India-UK ties broadly.

While Boris Johnson had kickstarted negotiations in 2022, in July this year, after Starmer led the Labour landslide win, he spoke to Modi and “agreed to work towards an early conclusion of a mutually beneficial India-UK free trade agreement”.

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