Boris Johnson is planning a spring trip to India as part of Britain’s new “Indo-Pacific tilt” strategy, in the first major bilateral visit by a UK prime minister since Theresa May toured Africa in 2018.
Johnson’s Indian visit will follow the launch next week of the government’s “integrated review” of foreign and defence policy, highlighting the economic opportunities of Asia and the potential strategic threat of China.
The fact that Johnson’s overseas trip is the first such tour by a British premier since May visited Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in August 2018 shows the extent to which UK foreign policy has been paralysed, first by Brexit and then Covid-19.
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