A series of senior conservatives contradicted Kemi Badenoch after criticizing the UK-India trade deal, as it temporarily exempted Indian workers from UK's national insurance payments.

The Conservative Party, including Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, under Rishi Sunak, said the deal should be hailed as a Brexit dividend, which would bring economic growth and cheaper Indian goods.

The deal was announced Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations. It cut tariffs on a range of commodities and the UK economy is expected to increase by £4.8 billion by 2040.

In the initial response, shadow business minister Andrew Griffith praised it, saying the government recognized that “reducing the cost and burden of international trade operations is a good thing and that we can do it because of Brexit”.

But late Tuesday, the tone changed, and shadow Attorney General Robert Jenrick, who often roamed briefly, tweeted that the National Insurance Waiver (Suftion Suffiens) was for seconded British workers in India, and he indicated that “the British workers last continued in Starmer UK”.

The party’s head Badenoch quickly followed suit, saying in a tweet that it was “two-layer taxes for two-layer Kiel.”

However, several influential Conservatives and figures in the pro-Brexit camp clearly disagree, noting that the opt-out of borrowed workers prevents double taxation, a regular tax in trade deals, and some negotiations were conducted under the leadership of the Conservatives.

Dowden, who is still a member of Congress, welcomed the deal and wrote on X, "based on the significant progress made by the former Conservative government."

Steve Baker, who handles trade under Theresa May, wrote: "This deal is good news. It further cements the path I and others are working to ensure... The tax issue is likely to be the red herring. We should celebrate the labor government's further promotion of free trade in national interests outside the EU."

Another leading Conservative Party, Jacob Rees-Mogg, business secretary under Liz Truss, tweeted: "With a welcome trade deal with India, including rice and tea, footwear, footwear and clothing, including rice and beverages, including Brexit commitments."

Praise of the deal and doubts about Badenoch's views - also from some influential Brexit campaigners. In an opinion article in the Telegraph, former Conservative European Parliament member Daniel Hannan, now a companion, wrote that Britain “was cancelled something that other countries don’t have, at least nothing like the same scale.”

He noted that some criticized the deal based on tax issues and were concerned about its impact on immigration and the apparent tariff reduction, writing: “These three are nonsense.”

Supporting Liam Fox wrote to Liam Fox on X as Secretary of International Trade: “This is a major achievement of UK trade policy.

He approved forwarding the position of another trade expert who noted that the UK-Chile trade agreement exempted British national insurance donations from five years of using Chilean workers, while India made three years of deals in India.

Jonathan Reynolds said in defending the deal on Wednesday that he hopes the deal will generally contribute to tax revenue, not deficits.

"It's not a tangible problem," he told Sky News. "It's conservatives and reforms-cannot accept that the Labor government has done what they can't do and has made this deal online all over the whole of it."