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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eleni Courea New Delhi

UK ministers head to India in search of trade deal they hope will boost economy

Jonathan Reynolds looking away from the camera
Jonathan Reynolds flew to Delhi on Sunday to resume Britain’s trade talks with India, the world’s fifth-largest economy. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Ministers are relaunching negotiations with India this week in an attempt to clinch a multibillion-pound free trade agreement that they hope will boost the UK’s flatlining economy.

Jonathan Reynolds, the business and trade secretary, flew to Delhi on Sunday to meet his Indian counterpart, Piyush Goyal, for the first time since Labour won the election.

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