India is optimistic about striking a long-awaited trade deal with the UK’s new Labour government, though warned Britain not to place “a gun [to] our head” by imposing a deadline on the renewed talks, the country’s commerce minister said.
Piyush Goyal told the Financial Times that past discussions showed the two sides were “pretty much on board on most of the issues we have discussed”, and that a deal may “close very quickly”.
But he urged the UK not to repeat a mistake made by Boris Johnson when the then-prime minister promised in early 2022 that a trade agreement could be finalised within six months.
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