UK-India Free Trade Agreement - 9th February 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate UK-India Free Trade Agreement.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-02-09/debates/FDBB7333-073D-4E4E-8093-6E8F845B1823/UKIndiaFreeTradeAgreement

19:04 Stephen Gethins

On that point, will the Minister tell the House why the EU has been able to remove more tariffs on its EU goods? There is also—I wonder whether he will talk about this—a stronger commitment on climate sustainability as well as trading, including elements dealing with climate change. Of course, on bilateral income, although the EU is a bigger market and therefore the figures will be bigger, we know that the percentage for EU savings is also higher. I know that the Minister used to be a European enthusiast, although since he has gone into government that has dissipated somewhat.

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19:13 Ayoub Khan (Other)

We all want a trade deal—a symbiotic relationship through which not just our country succeeds, but any other country that we trade with also succeeds—but that must not and cannot be a compromise that undermines the core British value of upholding the law, as well as ethical and moral values. However, when it comes to this agreement, that is exactly what we have done. Our commitment to human rights, climate change and justice have been sidelined for obvious commercial gain, and this kind of moral weakness has become a defining feature of pretty much everything that this Government have done on the world stage, discarding human rights at the first sign of pushback and branding cowardice as pragmatism.

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