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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, spectators daily polited podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Hill.

Rishi Srinak has landed in India where he is on a trip in which he will meet Modi and he will

talk about a UK trade deal of India. However, he has said today that he won't rush into that.

Fraser, what does a good result look like when it comes to what Rishi Srinak is trying to get from

this? Well, he wants to contrast himself with Boris Johnson, who he felt was too needy. He wanted

to get it done by Duali etc and that was a couple of Duali's ago and he felt had the idea that

the Brexit heirs were so desperate to provide some fruit of Brexit but they would sign any old

thing and Britain would get the right end of it. So he has said okay, we're going to show the

Indians that we don't really need them. We're happy to do this CTTP deal with the Japanese,

Australian free trade. We're going to make lots of friends but we're only going to go for you

on our terms. Nerelystically, I don't think this deal which will be agreed soon will be particularly

significant. I mean, we will, God willing, send them some more whiskey that will help

whiskey producers across the UK. They will perhaps have few cars, the ideas at Tata, the Indian

car making joint, its bots, Jaguar Land Rover is making a four billion pound gigafactory

investment in Somerset and therefore that will create Indian pressure for India to drop tariffs

on British cars etc. So the idea is that we will sell them a bit more of our stuff and in exchange

we'll get better access to invest in their markets but the big change I think is the one in

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