India and Britain launch talks on free trade deal

International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Leon Neal/PA)

India and Britain have launched talks on pursuing a free trade deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade by billions of pounds in one of the most ambitious negotiations to take place after Brexit.

Britain’s International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan met Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and industry, consumer affairs and food and public distribution and textiles, in New Delhi.