UK chancellor wasn’t invited to speak at the myriad of debates and panel discussions that front the four-day event in the Swiss Alps
Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor of the exchequer, hasn't been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos . Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloombergthis week on a major charm offensive. The mission to glad-hand big business and tell them “Britain is open for business” is something UK ministers seem to trot out ad nauseam despite the widely held notion that Brexit has pivoted the country in an entirely different direction.
And after several weeks of bad news stories connected with the UK’s flagging economy, including a run on UK gilts related to her shaky budgetary strategy , Reeves could point to an improved growth outlook and a PwC survey published on Monday which ranked Britain as the second most investible country after the US.But the UK media immediately latched on to the fact that she hadn’t been invited to speak at the myriad of debates and panel discussions that front the four-day event in the Swiss Alps.
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