The horrific, obscene details of the gang rape on a bus in Delhi that has sadly led to the 23 year old victim dying brings to the fore the many complexities that India is grappling with. The world is rightly shocked and appalled not just with the atrocity itself but also the way the police and authorities responded to it.

Over the last year or so we have seen David Cameron and Boris Johnson bowing and scraping their way around India hoping to see investment come back here. I’ve not seen either of them comment on what happened, which brings the shame home to us as well.

In Delhi and Bombay you will see bars four or five people deep waiting to handing over huge wads of cash for bottles of over-priced Krug. Restaurants are brimming with people spending more per head than in Mayfair and a small flat outside Delhi will cost you over one million pounds. Yet it is only recently that we have chosen to withdraw our international aid budget to a country that has the money but chooses not to spend it on the poor and the vulnerable – not just in remote villages but on the very same streets that the rich and powerful live and prosper.

If they choose to spend on space programmes and nuclear technology rather than tackle the stark problems which plague that great country, we are probably justified in diverting our aid resources to more deserving countries.

Of course no country is perfect, but let’s get a grip on our own standards here and say to India: “You know what – if that’s the shabby way you deal with gang-rape and poverty, we’d rather not do business with you. We’ll shop elsewhere.”

We need to up our own moral game to have the authority to suggest to India that they should up theirs.