Boris Johnson didn’t say which Diwali. When the architect of Brexit promised a trade deal with India “by Diwali”, he could not have imagined that the deal would actually be signed three years later by a Labour prime minister who had fought the 2019 election on a promise of a second referendum to try to keep Britain in the EU.
It is a paradox that two of the few achievements of Keir Starmer’s premiership were made possible by something that he so tenaciously opposed as the shadow minister responsible for Labour’s Brexit policy.
