“I see India as Asia’s Silicon Valley and the UK as Europe’s Silicon Valley,”

London:

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday cited India’s rise as an ‘financial superpower’ as he pledged to create a dynamic, modern economic system fuelled by technological progress.

Insisting that “extra will change within the subsequent 5 years than within the final 30”, Sunak, throughout his speech on safety on the Coverage Alternate think-tank, spoke on a “clear plan and daring concepts” to ship a safe future for the Britons.

He additionally maintained that “new and fast-growing financial superpowers” like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are considerably reshaping the worldwide economic system.

“We have to be ready strategically and economically, with sturdy plans and larger nationwide resilience, to satisfy this time of instability with energy,” stated the UK PM whereas elaborating on the present geopolitical scenario.

The UK, which has had 5 Conservative Prime Ministers since 2010, is predicted to go to the polls later this 12 months.

Sunak was solely spotlighting the resilience demonstrated by the Indian economic system because it efficiently mitigated the dangers of worldwide financial downturn over the current years, together with the Covid-19 aftermath.

“I see India as Asia’s Silicon Valley and the UK as Europe’s Silicon Valley, so there’s lots we are able to work on collectively,” Jeremy Hunt, UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, had stated following talks with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Delhi final September.

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