For a government with little to cheer, the announcement of a trade deal with India which will grow the economy by £5 billion a year should have been a moment of unadulterated good news.
But ministers have been left on the defensive over claims by Nigel Farage and the Conservative Party that the agreement will result in Indian workers paying less in tax than their British counterparts for doing the same job.
At the centre of the controversy is Labour’s decision to give in to an Indian demand that its workers and companies should not pay national insurance contributions on staff brought in to work in the UK if they are in the country for less than three years.
It was a demand that was
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