{"id":71511,"date":"2025-05-06T23:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2025\/may\/06\/keir-starmer-hails-historic-trade-deal-with-india-video"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:40:02","slug":"keir-starmer-hails-historic-trade-deal-with-india-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71511","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer hails &#8216;historic&#8217; trade deal with India \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add \u00a34.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040. The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has long been touted as one of the biggest prizes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/eu-referendum\">Brexit<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/keir-starmer\">Keir Starmer<\/a> said the &#8216;landmark deal&#8217; with India would &#8216;grow the economy and deliver for British people and business&#8217; after a call with the Indian prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>. The deal promises a boon for the UK\u2019s car and alcohol industries, which have suffered from the impact of Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs in the US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/06\/uk-and-india-agree-trade-deal-after-three-years-of-negotiations\">UK and India agree trade deal after three years of negotiations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/may\/06\/winter-fuel-payments-labour-keir-starmer-wes-streeting-kemi-badenoch-latest-live-news\">No 10 rules out reversing cuts to winter fuel payments \u2013 UK politics live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2025\/may\/06\/keir-starmer-hails-historic-trade-deal-with-india-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add \u00a34.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040. The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[528,319,62,557,1622,61,1536,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-foreign-policy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-keir-starmer","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trade-policy","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71512,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions\/71512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}