As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits India, geostrategist Brahma Chellenay on Wednesday said the UK's credibility as a partner could be undermined if Starmer avoids addressing key irritants in the relationship.

"British Prime Minister Starmer is in India with the largest-ever trade delegation, eager to turn the new FTA with New Delhi into tangible economic gains for a struggling UK," Chellaney wrote on X. "Yet Britain's credibility as a partner will ring hollow if Starmer ducks the real irritants - London's refusal to ease visa restrictions even as it courts Indian talent, its sheltering of India's high-profile economic fugitives, and its tolerance of UK-based Sikh extremists who openly glorify violence against the Indian state." Advertisement

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