India is Britain’s closest friend: Theresa May
She said her visit to India is about "collaboration" and highlighting the opportunities for new ways in which we can collaborate in future. Describing India as one of the UK’s “most important and closest” friends and a leading power in the world, Prime Minister Theresa May Sunday said she will hold talks with counterpart Narendra Modi to bolster bilateral strategic ties in areas like defence, security and trade. Ahead of her visit to India – which is May’s first bilateral visit outside the UK, an article published in the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ quoted her as saying that she plans to “promote the best of Britain” during her three-day trade mission to New Delhi and Bengaluru. She writes: “One of our most important and closest friends has to be India – a leading power in the world, with whom we share so much history, culture and so may values, and which is led by a Prime Minister who is undertaking a far-reaching programme of reform. In other w...