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By Elena Siniscalco Earlier this month, trade secretary Kemi Badenoch flew to India for the latest round of talks on a new trade deal. A few days previously, a leaked chapter of the deal made it into the press, showing the British government pushing India to apply harder patent standards. Various groups, including the British Medical Association, expressed concern that this would damage India’s world-renowned generics medicine industry. This industry not only supplies affordable drugs to much of the developing world, but also to us here in Britain. Faced with an awful choice – break its budget…