PM Johnson bans ministers from attending Davos - source


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019

FILE PHOTO British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets newly-elected Conservative MPs at the Houses of Parliament London Britain December 16 2019. Leon NealPool via REUTERS

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets newly-elected Conservative MPs at the Houses of Parliament, London, Britain December 16, 2019. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has banned ministers from attending the World Economic Forum for the global elite in Davos next month, according to a Downing Street source.

After leading his Conservative party last week to its biggest election win since Margaret Thatcher's landslide victory of 1987, Johnson pledged to run a "people's government" that would deliver Brexit and repay the trust placed in him by voters in former strongholds of his Labour opponents.

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