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New Foreign Secretary David Lammy visited India in just his third week in office, meeting both his counterpart Dr Jaishankar, as well as PM Narendra Modi. He said the UK’s relationship with India had been “underperforming” and that he sought to reset it.
So in a Labour front bench that has far fewer Indian faces than the Conservatives over the last year 14 years, but one which offers stability in policymaking over the coming Parliament, what do future UK-India relations look like?
Join us in conversation with Navendu Mishra MP for a deep-dive into this topic. It comes shortly after the Labour Party Conference, where lobby groups the Labour Friends of India and Labour Convention of Indian Organisations agreed to merge, for a more cohesive engagement with the British Indian diaspora.
About Navendu Mishra MP
Navendu Mishra was one of the founders of Stockport Momentum and supported Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership election and 2016 Labour leadership election.
He served as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from September 2018 until December 2019. As he was one of the nine representatives for Constituency Labour Parties, Mishra was ineligible to remain a member of the NEC upon his election as a Member of Parliament.
At the snap 2017 general election, Mishra contested Hazel Grove constituency, coming third with 20.5% of the vote behind the incumbent Conservative candidate William Wragg and the Liberal Democrat candidate.
Navendu’s mother is from Gorakhpur and father from Kanpur. He was privately educated at Clifton College in Bristol, before studying at the University of Hull and Keele University. Before entering politics, Mishra worked for the John Lewis Partnership and UNISON where he was a shop floor trade unionist in Stockport, eventually becoming an organiser for Unison and helping to organise care workers in precarious employment.
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