The highly anticipated UK-India trade deal will not get signed by Diwali as both sides have not yet agreed on a number of issues. There is no current plan for PM Narendra Modi to visit the UK this month to sign the deal, Indian diplomatic sources told TOI, adding that the talks have been delayed by “other factors” than UK home secretary Indian-origin Suella Braverman’s controversial remarks to Spectator magazine, in which she cast doubt over the UK wanting increased migration from India. However, the Indian sources said those comments had indeed cast a negative shadow over the talks.
“I have concerns about having an open border migration policy with India because I don’t think that’s what people voted for with Brexit,’ Braverman told the magazine and then accused Indian migrants of being the largest group of overstayers and claimed that an agreement to return them to India “had not necessarily worked very well”.
The Indian High Commission in London issued a sharp rebuke to her comments, saying action had been taken on all the overstayer cases referred to them and her comments on “mobility and migration” were not “appropriate”, given that negotiations are under way.
“We cannot say much on it but certainly the Diwali target is not happening,” Indian sources told TOI on Wednesday. “There is nothing confirmed about PM Modi visiting this month but plans may change.”
The source also confirmed that the return of Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi to India were “not part of the trade deal negotiations”.
“I have concerns about having an open border migration policy with India because I don’t think that’s what people voted for with Brexit,’ Braverman told the magazine and then accused Indian migrants of being the largest group of overstayers and claimed that an agreement to return them to India “had not necessarily worked very well”.
The Indian High Commission in London issued a sharp rebuke to her comments, saying action had been taken on all the overstayer cases referred to them and her comments on “mobility and migration” were not “appropriate”, given that negotiations are under way.
“We cannot say much on it but certainly the Diwali target is not happening,” Indian sources told TOI on Wednesday. “There is nothing confirmed about PM Modi visiting this month but plans may change.”
The source also confirmed that the return of Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi to India were “not part of the trade deal negotiations”.
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