Keir Starmer has branded attacks on his government’s newly-struck UK-India trade deal “incoherent nonsense” after he clashed with Kemi Badenoch at PMQs.
Hailed as a “landmark” agreement by the prime minister, the government announced on Tuesday that it had reached a deal to boost bilateral trade with India by £25bn – in what marks Britain’s biggest post-Brexit trade agreement.
The new deal – similar to those already in place with more than a dozen other countries – will immediately cut tariffs on whisky, gin, cars and cosmetics, while reducing barriers to imports of Indian textiles, food and jewellery.
But opposition politicians criticised a provision in the deal exempting some temporary Indian workers from national insurance payments, claiming this would undercut British staff.
The move is under what is known as the “double contribution convention”, which is designed to stop workers and employers paying the tax twice, once in each country.
Credit to : The Independent
