Trade experts said the overall deal — which will increase long-run UK GDP by 0.1 per cent a year, according to the government — was focused more heavily on goods than services, reflecting New Delhi’s longtime reluctance to open its markets in those areas.

India and Britain struck a “landmark” trade deal Tuesday, the UK government said, marking progress on lowering and removing tariffs just as President Donald Trump is busy raising US import taxes to historic levels.

By Sachin Ravikumar and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday dismissed the idea that he had sold out British workers by giving a tax break to some Indian workers as part of a free trade agreement with India,