If leaving the EU was going to set Britain’s trade relationships with the world alight, the evidence is still not there yet.

Theresa May is coming back from India today – the first bilateral trade mission for Theresa May outside Europe.

And yet the mission was a disaster from the start.

Even before she got there, the Indian government had strong words for her on the issue of immigration restrictions.

Once she got there, she got more of the same. Here was how the Hindustan Times reported on her visit:

But the stringent visa regulations by the British have raced hackles in New Delhi and Indian side will raise their concerns over the visa rules that affecting Indian students as well as skilled workers when May meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

India has been raising its concern related to visa and migration with the UK for sometime now. In the past five years, the number of Indian students studying in UK got halved from 40,000 to 20, 000 due to the change in the visa rules on post-study work.

Theresa May didn’t give any ground, saying the system “was fair”. The students may disagree.

So was the trip a success?

Not by any reasonable measure. This is what the PM said today:

During this visit, we’ve seen £1bn worth of deals being signed and we’ve come to an agreement with the Indian government that we will work together with them on developing our trade relationship for the future.

One billion! Not bad.

Except, when the Indian PM came to the UK, David Cameron announced £9bn worth of trade deals in 2015. Nine times as much.

So much for the post-Brexit trade bonanza