As he was given a police escort through the hazy Mumbai dawn on Wednesday morning, Sir Keir Starmer was greeted with repeated posters of himself, shaking hands with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi .

In a sign of just how much Delhi wanted to impress its British VIP guest, the Indian Government ensured the Mahrishi authority erected 5,700 giant posters across the city expressing the “warmest welcome” to the Prime Minister as he arrived at the head of the largest ever UK trade delegation to India .

A senior UK official said: “It is absolutely extraordinary. I’m used to quite a level of welcome in Delhi for foreign leaders [but] I’ve never seen anything like this. New Feature

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