Brittas questioned the emphasis on Hindi by the Union government and recalled his days as a journalist in Delhi in the late 1980s when he covered Parliament.

Rachel Reeves will use her keynote Mansion House speech on Thursday to espouse the benefits of free and open trade in a direct plea to the protectionist US president-elect Donald Trump.

Farage, the Brexit-campaigner and self-described troublemaker, is a friend of Trump and was at his election victory party in ...