‘Both Prime Ministers want a FTA…Aasaan nahi hai, negotiations abhi baaki hai, mere dost’: British High Commissioner Alex Ellis at Idea Exchange

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Outgoing British High Commissioner Alex Ellis on polarised Indian politics getting reflected on British soil, finding peace in Gaza, and why election in Russia is a big sham. The conversation was moderated by Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor, The Indian Express. I was sent here to affect a transformation. The UK was just coming out of the transition period of leaving the EU. India was already growing. The Indo-Pacific was becoming the centre of the world. I was sent here on a mission because India was becoming one of the three defining countries that I have seen in my lifetime, alongside...