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Singh’s tenure overlapped with that of Labor Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Conservative David Cameron, who later wrote in his memoirs that he got along well with this saintly man who was steadfast on the threats facing India.
The United Kingdom paid tribute to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he was the ‘architect of economic reforms’. British High Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron posted on social media A great Prime Minister, Finance Minister and global statesman who advanced India’s interests through bold economic reforms and gave India its rightful place on the world stage after the financial crisis. Played an important role in stabilizing the global economy. He said Britain will always be proud of Manmohan Singh’s invaluable partnership with three British Prime Ministers and proud of him as an alumnus of two of our great universities.
Singh’s tenure overlapped with that of Labor Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Conservative David Cameron, who later wrote in his memoirs that he got along well with this saintly man who was steadfast on the threats facing India. The former British PM wrote in ‘For the Record’ published in 2019, during a subsequent visit he told me that if there was another terrorist attack like Mumbai in 2011, India would have to take military action against Pakistan. Manoj Ladwa, founder and president of UK-based policy and events platform India Global Forum (IGF), described the former PM as a leading statesman and visionary economist. His transformative reforms in the 1990s not only shaped India’s future, but also helped ignite my own commitment to fostering stronger UK-India relations. As an alumnus of Oxford and Cambridge, he epitomized the deep cultural and educational ties between our countries. His legacy will inspire generations.
The BBC honored Singh as one of India’s longest-serving Prime Ministers, considered the architect of major liberal economic reforms, having served as Prime Minister from 2004–2014 and as Finance Minister before that. In his first speech as Finance Minister, he quoted Victor Hugo and said that ‘No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come’.
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