I was most touched to have been asked to join you all at the start of India Global Week. As you undertake these vital discussions I have every confidence that you will identify practical answers to the questions we all face and help to move us on to a more sustainable trajectory towards a better future.

India Global Forum’s annual UK-India Week is a highly anticipated fixture in the bilateral calendar of our two great nations. It is a catalyst for forging new trade ties, lasting collaborations, and a better future for our peoples. I'm confident this partnership will be a defining one for our times

I must place on record my thanks to India Inc. for organising this event even in these trying times which really is the essence of greater engagement between the people of UK and India and between businesses.

India Inc. provides a great gateway to of opportunities between the UK and India. Its publications and events are excellent and unique in bringing the very best of both our countries together.

India Global Forum plays a very important and critical role in taking the possibilities of a good relationship between India and UK and really translating that into actual conversations about where that relationship ought to go and what kind of outcomes that relationship should have.

Because it brings together the key policymakers in the UK with key policymakers and business voices in India, and this is a cross-party event. It's important because it's not a partisan event, and those discussions are taking place with all the key policymakers on both sides. So, that's why it's one of the most important parts, one of the most exciting parts of the calendar

Great to participate at such an important forum like IGF, where we are trying to create a new India, a new UK and to explore the opportunities and the potential we can tap into between the two countries – I think that’s what is exciting for me.

The more forums like this .. or actually the governments of two countries can make it easier for us to work together and allow for corporates and give them more avenues to explore these global resources put for our growth and the benefit for the economy the better it is for both the nations. I really look forward to seeing that happen.

India Global Forum is a real symbol of how great the contribution that British Asians & Indians all over the world make on the world stage.