Casting their shadow: how Trump, Putin and AI dominated talk at Davos

Neither man was present at World Economic Forum where Labour impressed global business chiefs

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Neither were on the guest list for the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, yet the man in the Kremlin and the other one plotting a return to the White House still managed to dominate Davos.

The regular January talkfest high in the Swiss Alps attracted an impressive list of world leaders of all political persuasions. The Chinese premier, Li Qiang, set out China's five-point plan for rebuilding trust. Javier Milei used his first overseas trip since becoming Argentina's president to set out his ultra free-market agenda. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, boasted about his success in revitalising France's economy.