SIR KEIR STARMER hailed it as Britain’s “biggest trade deal” since Brexit, and the “most ambitious” agreement in India’s history. Neither, it must be said, are especially high bars. Despite Brexiteers’ dreams, Britain has chalked up only a handful of modest deals since leaving the EU in 2020. India, meanwhile, has long been one of the world’s least open markets. Importing British goods has a long and painful history: under colonial rule, Mahatma Gandhi spent hundreds of hours spinning yarn to promote his boycott of British cloth.