British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, defending the newly announced free trade agreement with India and the tax clause, said the opposition had “blurred” for eight years, but they did the job in the 10 months. He also castigated the conservative chief Kemi Badenoch, who, according to him, arrives every week to speak to the country.
“Each week, Mr. President, she comes to talk about the country, at the carp of the sidelines. It cannot even resolve to celebrate the agreement that we have concluded with India. They took eight years of fiddling and and we have absolutely nothing. Badenoch and the opposition conservatives.
The British opposition – Conservatives – criticized the clause of the double contribution agreement which allows Indian workers supported in Great Britain will not have to pay national insurance contributions during the first three years. This exemption also applies to British workers in India. The clause was one of India’s main requests for the agreement.
The Conservative Party called these “two -level taxes” that were unjustly benefiting from Indian workers while costing the British economy millions of pounds.
Starmer said to the House of Commons: “Critique on double taxation is an inconsistent nonsense. This is an advantage for workers. It is in the agreements that we already have with 50 other countries. And if the head of the opposition seriously suggests that they should tear it away with 50 other countries, create a massive hole in our economy, they should get up and they should say it. “
Badenoch had gone to social networks to affirm that the ALE was the same defective agreement which it had refused to sign as an anxious secretary to business and trade. His rival of party leaders, Robert Jenrick, attacked the agreement because it means that “Indian workers here for less than three years will not pay national insurance in the United Kingdom”. Liberal Democratic deputy chief Daisy Cooper also said that the agreement had underestimated British workers at a time when the economy was hammered by the Trump trade war. The leader of the anti-immigration reform party, Nigel Farage, said that the government did not care about workers. ”
The Secretary of Business and Trade in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Reynolds, who had concluded the agreement with the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal I could not pass this through the line.
