So far as the EU is concerned, Brussels is quite clear that Germany is the group’s largest trade partner with India. Indeed, in 2015 Germany ranked as India’s sixth biggest trading partner, while despite its historic advantages, the UK lagged behind in the 18th position. What’s more, the UK has the largest trade deficit of any EU state with India, while Germany posts a trade surplus with it. In any case, Mrs May is far too busy trying to cope with turbulent juniors like Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary she dare not sack, and other ambitious colleagues, to spend much time or thought on an FTA with India. However significant Britain’s political and cultural ties with India may be, she must first work out her divorce settlement with the EU and ensure that she will be in Number Ten to push it through. Playing for time, her recent speech in Florence gave little clue to the kind of agreement London and Brussels would both find acceptable. But, then, London doesn’t even know as yet what Edinburgh and Belfast – capitals of Scotland and Northern Ireland — really want.