British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be hoping for positive outcomes as he began his trip to India on October 8 with an entourage which includes business folk and university administrators keen to capitalise on the UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The Free Trade Agreement, as it is known in the UK, was signed earlier this year after almost a decade of stop-start negotiations and missed deadlines.

Arriving in Mumbai, the prime ministerial convoy would have sped southwards across the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and onto the coastal road that skirts midtown. To its right the calm waters of the Arabian Sea and to the left, inland, a forest of cranes and half-built skyscrapers piercing the overcast skies still loaded with the remnants of the monsoon rains.

The commercial ca

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