Same faces, new direction as Sweden's Lofven starts second term as PM


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  • Monday, 21 Jan 2019

Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven attends a news conference after being voted back as prime minister, in Stockholm, Sweden January 18, 2019. TT News Agency/Jessica Gow/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Social Democrat Prime Minster Stefan Lofven kept his cabinet broadly unchanged as he outlined plans on Monday for a major shift to the right in policy during his second term in office, including tax cuts and labour market reforms.

A national election in September delivered a hung parliament and it took four months of wrangling before Lofven reached an unprecedented deal with the Centre and Liberals to secure a government that would not need support from the anti-immigration, far-right Sweden Democrats.

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