Why Labour win doesn’t promise a new dawn for India-UK relations
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- Hasan Suroor
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM Jul 8, 2024, 13:12 IST IST
The new foreign secretary’s indifference towards India and the elevation of a PoK-origin MP as justice secretary mean more trouble is in store for the already rocky bilateral ties
Phew! What an “electoral armageddon”, to quote a senior British Conservative Party figure who lost his own parliamentary seat in last week’s Labour landslide.
A rather morbid joke going around likens the party’s rout in the July 4 general election to the fatal sinking of the Titanic — except that there was nothing sudden or accidental about this sinking.
A rather morbid joke going around likens the party’s rout in the July 4 general election to the fatal sinking of the Titanic — except that there was nothing sudden or accidental about this sinking.