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UK faces difficult path as it resumes courtship with India
David Cameron, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson pictured in front of Tower Bridge in November 2015. Photograph: Reuters
Boris Johnson is hoping to improve relations with rising superpower but many roadblocks stand in his way
Tue 6 Apr 2021 00.00 EDT
George Osborne, the former British chancellor, tells the story of how, soon after Narendra Modi had been elected prime minister of India in 2014, he and the then foreign secretary, William Hague, alighted on a plan to fly immediately to India to make sure they were the first through the door to congratulate the new leader of the world’s largest democracy.
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