T he government of India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the British government led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has claimed that the India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, also known as the India–UK Free Trade Agreement ment will usher in a new era of mutually beneficial partnership.

However, Starmer’s two-day trade mission to Mumbai on 8 and 9 October, followed by 10 Downing Street’s press release on 9 October, reveals that cooking fish in its own oil is the British trade strategy in India. The neocolonial trade strategy is more about plundering wealth from the people of India and transferring it to British capitalist corporations to sustain their crumbling economy. The UK-India joint statement reveals nothing, but Downing Street’s press relea

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