The prime ministers of Britain and India sealed a hard-wrought trade agreement on Thursday that will slash tariffs on products including Scotch whisky and English gin shipped to India and Indian food and spices sent to the U.

Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi set to agree Britain-India trade deal - The agreement will see tariffs on an array of British goods reduced from an average of 15% to 3%.

The Prime Minister said the UK-India agreement was 'the biggest and most economically significant' trade deal Britain has made since Brexit.